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  1. This is a huge tell that he does not have the votes. He may not even have 50, let alone 60.

  2. Let me guess, he’s going to crap out an executive order demanding it? That’s not how these things work.

  3. dropkickninja on

    Well. Sort of true. Congress may not go for his changes but the states sure as hell won’t so he still can’t do anything but bitch. Trump is big old baby bitch

  4. Imaginary_Bus_6742 on

    This from the person that framed Roe v. Wade is a states rights issue.

  5. He don’t need no stinkin’ Congress!
    He don’t need no stinkin’ SCOTUS!
    He don’t need no stinkin’ Constitution!

  6. RoosterMedical on

    A large bureaucracy to administer the ID’s needs to be created first. Unless Trump expects every State to create their own but either way it will take time.

  7. Yes he does anything else he does would likely be illegal and not survive the courts. Most likely his plan signing a executive order declaring all states must have voter ID. Then after the election he tries to sue and undermine the states who did not comply demanding there votes be thrown out. All while threatening violence with ICE and the military.

  8. cnbc_official on

    President [Donald Trump](https://www.cnbc.com/video/2016/06/01/donald-trump-redefines-politics.html) on Friday vowed that voter-identification laws would be implemented for the 2026 midterm elections, even though legislation mandating them appears poised to stall in Congress.

    “The Democrats refuse to vote for Voter I.D., or Citizenship. The reason is very simple — They want to continue to cheat in Elections,” Trump [posted to Truth Social](https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/116065471857020644) Friday afternoon.

    “This was not what our Founders desired. I have searched the depths of Legal Arguments not yet articulated or vetted on this subject, and will be presenting an irrefutable one in the very near future. There will be Voter I.D. for the Midterm Elections, whether approved by Congress or not!” he continued.

    More details: [https://cnb.cx/4rJk61I](https://cnb.cx/4rJk61I)

  9. BlotchComics on

    >“This was not what our Founders desired. I have searched the depths of Legal Arguments not yet articulated or vetted on this subject, and will be presenting an irrefutable one in the very near future. There will be Voter I.D. for the Midterm Elections, whether approved by Congress or not!” he continued.

  10. ElysiumSprouts on

    You would think Republicans would be clamoring to impeach this embarrassment of unconstitutionality.

  11. CatVideoFest on

    “I have searched the depth of legal nonsense and still found nothing. But I have found some lawyers unscrupulous enough to just make up some absolutely insane and implausible bullshit, and I will be somehow convincing them to put that case before a judge I handpick. Then when most states refuse to follow the idiotic decree I have set forth based on 100% flawed arguments with no constitutional power behind them, I will declare that those states are stealing the election and declare martial law.”

  12. SeductiveSunday on

    It took twenty years to get the Real ID going, and even it’s completely worthless.

  13. > “This was not what our Founders desired. I have searched the depths of Legal Arguments not yet articulated or vetted on this subject, and will be presenting an irrefutable one in the very near future. There will be Voter I.D. for the Midterm Elections, whether approved by Congress or not!” [trump] continued.

    LOL he doesnt know half of those fucking words, let alone how to put them together to form a sentence.

    Can the media please start asking who the fuck his handlers are and whos actually running this country like they did with Biden towards the end?

  14. sugarlessdeathbear on

    Narrator: „The President in fact DOES need Congress to pass a new law.“

  15. SierraVictoriaCharli on

    > I have searched the depths of Legal Arguments not yet articulated or vetted on this subject,

    Translation, im pulling this out of my ass while trying desperately to sound smart.

  16. dakotanorth8 on

    Trump also said we’d have checks from tariffs.

    I think the quote was “You’re gonna be so rich, you’re not going to know what to do with all your money…”

    Every day he looks less likely he’s going to finish the term.

  17. Dramatic_Phlegmatic on

    So says a proclamation by Supreme Leader Trump. I guess we’re tirning into North Korea now.

  18. Choice-of-SteinsGate on

    The Republican party’s obsession with enacting voter ID law is a DECEPTION.

    What’s really dishonest and blatantly corrupt about this whole campaign is that Republicans misrepresent voter ID as a concept and more important than that is how Voter ID is only one of many restrictive policies that Republicans are desperately trying to implement.

    Give them the chance to pass legislation like the „SAVE Act,“ and they will seize on the opportunity to roll back voting rights and impose widespread restraints. Voter ID just acts as a smokescreen and this is a compelling reason for obstructing their poorly disguised efforts to suppress the vote.

    When it comes to „protecting the integrity of our elections,“ voter ID is at the bottom of the list.

    Republicans will tell you that voter ID policy is backed by bipartisan support, but what they won’t tell you is that they advocate for strict requirements which would exclude most basic forms of ID.

    Americans support using these basic forms of ID to vote, but there is no data showing support for narrower requirements. This is because these requirements would act as an obstacle, not a preventative measure.

    Additionally, ID requirements exist in other countries because obtaining IDs in these countries is easier and voting is more accessible. Governments also automatically issue IDs to citizens in countries where ID is required to vote.

    Republicans often argue against the use of basic forms of ID and automatic ID issuance. Ask yourself why Republicans clamor on and on for voter ID requirements, yet push back against policies that would help make voter ID a reality?

    In other countries, election/voting laws and polling procedures often make voting simpler and more convenient, but in the US, republican-backed voting laws, regulations and legal challenges tend to make it more difficult to vote—especially for citizens located in urban areas and cities

    That said, and despite all of the conspiracy theories and lies about „election fraud“ following Trump’s humiliating loss in 2020, no substantial evidence and data have been provided to support voter ID requirements. Which begs the question, why would you advocate for implementing a policy that solves an imaginary problem, or fails to sufficiently solve that problem?

    And if all of that wasn’t enough, other systemic issues exist that act as impediments to free and fair elections.

    Analyses show that when states have fair maps, drawn by independent commissions, representation is more evenly split—especially in Republican controlled states where Democrats gain seats when they otherwise wouldn’t due to partisan redistricting efforts. When those same states are gerrymandered to hell, Republicans win more seats.

    Because Republicans are overrepresented in state legislatures, they have broader control of gerrymandering.

    The GOP is capitalizing on this opportunity to consolidate power for the foreseeable future. Which means that their redistricting wars and voter suppression efforts will be ongoing, and the more this continues, the more it will chip away at the democratic process.

    Gerrymandering practices must be eliminated, and redistricting must be left up to independent commissions in every state.

    We must also address foreign election interference and the Republican party’s failure to confront this pressing issue because they have benefitted politically from foreign election meddling for the last several elections.

    That said, if MAGA is genuinely intent on „protecting the integrity of our elections,“ they should turn their attention to the myriad systemic issues that Trump and the Republican party seem hell bent on taking advantage of instead of obsessing over unsubstantiated conspiracy theories from years ago.

    But they won’t… Instead they are fixated on this fictional issue because that’s precisely what those deciding our elections want from them.

    Nevertheless, US elections already have multiple layers of protection in place to prevent widespread election tampering.

    Several safeguards, legal deterrents, eligibility requirements, audits and paper trails already exist and act as very effective measures against voter and election fraud.

    Proof of citizenship requirements also exist and ID verification is already required in several states.

    Up till now, these measures have acted as effective deterrents to fraud, but ever since Trump began denying elections without proof and lying to his voters so he could conspire to overturn the results of a free and fair election, those same voters have been pushing for needless policies that seek to address a fictional problem.

    Republicans intend to suppress the vote through multiple measures designed to make the voting process more challenging for those that vote against them.

    GOP-backed voting laws almost always and intentionally make it more difficult to vote—particularly for voters in densely populated areas.

    Republicans have been steadily suppressing the vote for years; an effort accelerated in the aftermath of January 6th and by Trump’s ‚big lie“ of a stolen election.

    To make matters worse, Trump has been federalizing the military while deputizing trigger-happy and unaccountable ICE thugs in order to centralize authoritarian control over US cities and urban areas; a paramilitary presence he now openly plans to utilize to suppress the vote in upcoming elections.

    The GOP has seized on this post Jan 6 environment to sow distrust in our elections. They have piggybacked off Trump’s lies of election fraud; tapping into a stockpile of conspiracy theories, lies, and misinformation to dissuade and deceive the public, and to carry out a nationwide campaign of disenfranchisement and voter suppression.

    Republicans exploit the misinformed, take advantage of the ignorance, the partisanship and the mindless distrust of their voters to give themselves the legal authority to challenge election results while providing their party with more power, control and supervision over our election system.

    They have the capability now to deny, subvert, legally contest and overturn future elections with near impunity.

    Republicans are consolidating power at an alarming rate; abusing their trifecta and their control over state legislatures to give themselves the ultimate say on how maps are drawn; unilaterally deciding who their voters are and not the other way around.

    This brazen mid-census redistricting effort would also not be possible without Trump giving himself and his party a license to say f-ck all to democratic norms for the sake of maintaining their grip on power.

    On top of all of this, Republicans are trying to scheme their way through the courts to dilute the minority vote by challenging section 2 of the voting Rights Act. A historically significant provision meant to protect marginalized voters from being unfairly sequestered and disenfranchised.

    Republicans have the gall to say they’re „protecting the integrity of elections,“ while making every effort to subvert the vote, crudely redraw maps, purge voter rolls, limit voter participation, alter the census in their favor, reshape districts along racial lines, and influence election outcomes.

    Republicans have all but succeeded at diverting attention away from their efforts to erode the democratic process.

    What our representatives SHOULD be singularly focused on is finding a way to institute a complete overhaul of how elections are funded, alongside significant campaign finance reforms and an end to Citizens United. I guess that’s too much to ask.

  19. SOP: Do illegal shit and force the people upholding the law to spend weeks or months in court to have it undone

  20. AgentInkling99 on

    Incoming ExEcUtIvE mEmO telling states how to conduct elections lmao what a chode.

  21. Yep I knew they didn’t have the votes in the senate. It’s prob not even close to having enough votes.

  22. ezoobeson_drunk on

    When will the spineless people in congress stand up to this vile and lecherous cretin? He’s telling you, congress, to gfy time after time and you take it. They should call it “cuckress” with how they let themselves be treated by Trump.

  23. dancedragon25 on

    Bro thinks he can bypass Congress on imposing a poll tax, big bro forgot even Congress can’t bypass the Constitution on imposing a poll tax.

  24. b1llypilgrim on

    Counterpoint: We shouldn’t wait for the elections to impeach and imprison Trump and all his buddies that are on or helping to hide the Epstein files.

  25. wowlock_taylan on

    So his regime will be illegitimate then. If the orange wanna be dictator tries to claim elections are not valid, then states should not recognize his fascist regime.

  26. Sounds like he’s saying the fix is already in. Just like when he told his sheep that they didn’t need any more votes and they’d never need to vote again.

  27. He needs Congress. If he tries to enact sweeping changes to state election rules by decree, there will be a nationwide injunction in five minutes. Our dirty, rotten Christian nationalist SCOTUS has saved the regime from many reasonable injunctions, but it doubt they’ll go for this one. Maybe a salty Thomas-Alito dissent since those two have no jurisprudence other than enacting their far-right policy preferences.

  28. Child rapist can fuck off.

    Oh and fuck each and every MAGA cult asshole. Wish nothing but the worst fucking lives for you. Hope you lose your jobs, your homes, your health…everything.

  29. The Executive branch has no Connectional role on elections.

    Absolutely fucking none.

    If he attempts this, it will be the end of his presidency.

  30. The States control how elections are run, not the Federal Government. He can issue as many EOs as he likes but they are irrelevant.

  31. Big-Yak-8928 on

    I must just be ignorant, but I legit did not know presidents could make as many sweeping changes as they wish like we’ve seen. Greenhouse gases can’t be regulated anymore. Thousands of people can be fired by an unelected and unapproved billionaire appointee. Foreign trade can turn on his whims. Foreign leaders can be abducted without congressional approval. Like is the country really meant to radically transform every four years at a single person’s whims if they win one election? It’s like divine right of kings.

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