US President Donald Trump, on Friday, February 13, threatened to try to bypass Congress and force new voting laws ahead of the November midterm elections, where his Republican Party fears losing control of the legislature. Trump said he would soon issue an executive order attempting to impose the rules if Congress does not pass a law requiring photo identification to vote and other nationwide reforms.
Any attempt would likely be met by a legal challenge that could ultimately be decided by the Supreme Court. “There will be Voter ID for the Midterm Elections, whether approved by Congress or not!” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. “If we can’t get it through Congress, there are Legal reasons why this SCAM is not permitted. I will be presenting them shortly, in the form of an Executive Order,” he wrote.
While many jurisdictions across the United States require photo ID to cast ballots, not all do, with Trump and many Republicans arguing without evidence that those areas have permitted significant voter fraud.
The Trump-backed “SAVE America” election reform act passed in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives this week. However, it is expected to fail in the Senate, where the Republican majority is too slim to pass the law without Democratic support.
In addition to requiring a photo ID to cast a ballot, the bill would also require proof of citizenship to register to vote. There is no evidence of meaningful fraud in US elections and critics say that the bill’s measures would instead push millions of people away from casting ballots, because they don’t have a passport or a paper copy of their birth certificate.
He cannot “order new laws”. He doesn’t have that authority.
Unless we are in a fascist regime.
We are.
Guess what
Fascist butt
Laws require compliance and enforcement. Him being fascist and declaring it doesn’t make it the new rule. He’d need to send loyal soldiers to take over polling places for this to work. And there are a lot more polling places than he has brown shirts to take over and the public is agitated and motivated to stop it.
Fascism isn’t a yes or no question. Nazi Germany still had agents of the state who would only follow the law (as defined by the “process”) and not simple dictates by Hitler. And Trump’s level of control is much much much smaller than Hitler’s. He can’t even pass votes in the legislature controlled by his own party.
It’s useful to call out fascism in no uncertain terms when it’s used to wake up the sleepwalkers, but overstating its power out inevitability just seems to be encouraging surrender.
he will try to sic his ICE pigs on purple areas in red states. it wont work in blue state, since you can universally vote by mail, and having numerous polling places that are not on official buildings.