Judge blocks Trump's election executive order, siding with Democrats who called it overreach
A federal judge on Friday blocked President Donald Trump’s attempt to overhaul elections in the U.S., siding with a group of Democratic state attorneys general who challenged the effort as unconstitutional.
Trump’s March 25 executive order sought to compel officials to require documentary proof of citizenship for everyone registering to vote for federal elections, accept only mailed ballots received by Election Day and condition federal election grant funding on states adhering to the new ballot deadline.
The group of attorneys general said the directive “usurps the States’ constitutional power and seeks to amend election law by fiat.” The White House has defended the order as “standing up for free, fair and honest elections” and called proof of citizenship a “commonsense” requirement.
Judge Denise J. Casper of the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts said in Friday’s order that the states had a likelihood of success as to their legal challenges.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-elections-executive-order-4f863aaa8e0c59640ebc727827ffc887Open linkView original on midwest.social
When people support this or the trialess deportation of people who can't prove their citizenship on the spot, ask them to prove their citizenship to you right then and there.
Most people can't quickly produce proof of citizenship.
And if they do, say it's fake, confiscate it and arrest them anyway.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-citizen-real-id-detained-210643526.html
And even if one of them decides it's real (after giving you a good beating):
They'll threaten to do what they can to get it revoked just so they can come back for you:
https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/worker-arrested-by-ice-in-lynn-released-a-day-later-says-he-was-beaten-in-custody/3733701/
In Nazi germany “let me see your papers” was very much a thing
If their proof of citizenship is their ID, remind them that people make their entire living off selling fake or altered ID cards.
Sorry, your drivers license isn't good enough, you're going to the concentration camps.
And remember even RealID licenses aren't proof of citizenship.
Which is insane considering their requirements
Exactly. Sure I have a passport. But I'm not carrying that thing around with me.
But I'm white. So currently, it's probably OK for me, but time and this admin will be coming for us all.
Judge is not suppose to "side with democrats", or any group or ideology. They're supposed to only side with the constitution and the written and agreed upon laws.
Which is exactly what this judge did. It just happened to mean they chose the side the Democrat AGs over that of the fascist taco
The author of the article wrote it that way. That's how headlines work.
"siding with a group of Democratic state attorneys general"
Maybe I should be keeping a list of "actually many Democrats are doing stuff"
No they absolutely did not, what the fuck are you talking about? Why did 5 people upvote this? Like wtf? I don’t understand posting verifiable lies and then upvoting them. Like what a weird thing to lie about.
I don't know what op posted or if the upvotes are organic but don't forget that a lot of trolls use alt accounts to self upvote.
I think people are confused which court case this is; there are too many things happening this week, and I suspect the above was referring to the national guard one
There is a lot of vote manipulation going on throughout the fediverse. Most instance admins refuse to address the problem.
Other forum sites have entire teams of people dedicated to countering vote manipulation but here there is nobody. It will get worse until something is done about it.
What did it say?
WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP UPVOTING THIS STOP IT ITS NOT FUCKING TRUE
https://apnews.com/article/california-immigration-national-guard-newsom-trump-lawsuit-aedf8cdd95ee899c9559d5e54a2e4833
The first ruling has been paused until there is a ruling from the Court of Appeals.
I’m gonna fucking lose it
Letting lies online dictate your well-being is not great. It sucks, but the best thing to do is reply with the correction and move on. It's not within any of our powers to force others to accept truth, and it'll drive one to madness to try.