It’s time to resign.

It provides a shield for Red/Purple states like Texas to crack down on voter suppression.

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An Executive order cannot create or change law, and it cannot compel action that is contrary to law.

An EO is simply that, an order to EXECUTIVE BRANCH EMPLOYEES about how they should conduct their job. It has no weight on anybody or any entity that is not directly in the President's chain of command. It cannot direct corporations to do anything. It cannot direct states to do anything. It cannot direct individuals to do anything. And it cannot direct Exec Branch employees to do anything that is against the law or outside their legal authority.

So PLEASE, I beg everyone, if you make a post about one of Trump's bullshit EOs, please take an extra 30 seconds to explain what EOs are and what they are not.

The president can’t demand the retirees at my polling station do sh*t. Fu*k him.

Above all else, an EO cannot direct any judge to do anything, and the EO cannot direct any legislator to do anything. That's called separation of powers.

And they have a highly funded, rapidly growing, personally loyal, legally unaccountable paramilitary force with no compunction against killing citizens for no reason.

Constitutions only work if they are upheld. Ours appears to be dead paper with a reputation rather than a relevant living doccument at this point.

Barring some change, this will get a lot uglier, probably soon.

rule it's constitutional even though it's not? It wouldn't be the first time they ruled against actual Constitutional law, for their orange deity.

it doesn't work like that, he would have made the EO already.

But like stated above, red states could take the bait and pass laws that require a photo ID to vote, but they are red states anyway.

OTOH, blue states will ignore his shenanigan, which will allow him to claim it was rigged.

BULLSHIT!! He has NO AUTHORITY to do any of this. My biggest concern is ICE and how THEY could destroy our midterm election. SCARY days ahead.

The chances Trump wrote that are approximately 0.0 percent.

The states will ignore his EO, just like they ignored all the others.

register, mostly for proof of residency. I dont recall having to show ID at the voting place. there is a huge vote by mail turnout here

we only need to show an ID if voting "in person" for the very first time and/or if changing voting division due to a move, and voting in that polling place for the first time. If requesting an absentee ballot (either "no excuse" or as a regular absentee), then some kind of ID verification is required (driver's license number or last 4 digits of SS#) to apply for a ballot.

After that when voting, no ID is needed and the voter still needed to sign-in before voting (I'm guessing with signature check as I stopped doing in person during the pandemic in 2020 and haven't done in person since). I know they updated to using the electronic poll books after I stopped in-person voting and I think that is how people now sign in (used to be big binders with pages of names and a line to sign).

trump cannot change state election laws by executive order. The last election executive order was struck down. trump needs for congress to act which is NOT going to happen

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

Trump and MAGA are the cheaters

I read a newspaper every day. No one uses that name, or Dept of War.

No mention of how he's going to enforce it in blue states.

I just checked Google Maps.

Sure, they could grow a backbone and spit in his eye, but they might not like the consequences.
AP and Reuters have a 1st amendment shield around them, but Google is a business, and yes, they probably are close to a monopoly. They can temporarily appease him and continue to enjoy that advantage.

It's too bad when companies knuckle under for him, and it certainly frustrates that he can influence them, but he's the president that breaks things.

It seems like their cooperation is half hearted anyway. I searched Gulf of America:

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So basically filing a brief no one will read. It's already in the FOANX News script.

And if they've not been "articulated etc" then how could he have searched...blah, blah, blubber.

Whatever they want.

We need to have legal strategies to help prevent disruption, because they mean to do it.

help folks get ID

As well as the Articles in the Constitution assigning elections to the States? I presume Trump will claim emergency powers override the clear intent.

I have no doubt that Trump has been trying to strongarm/bully Thune to whip his conference to vote to nuke the filibuster.

As I posted in another thread

It falls to the individual states. The states that will honor this Executive Order are states that vote red anyway. I don’t think this will have much effect.
Interesting and a little off subject that there is nothing in the constitution requiring a popular vote for president. The states can choose the electors any way they want to. The legislature can appoint them or whatever.