Senate Republicans just all but admitted defeat on their so-called "SAVE America Act" – a reckless scheme to stop married women, naturalized citizens, and anyone else they don't want voting from casting a ballot. [1]
But this fight isn't over. After failing to pressure Congress to pass the SAVE America Act, Trump is now reportedly trying to change our voting laws through executive fiat. [2]
That's right. The exact same anti-voter restrictions that Congress seems likely to REJECT – like banning mail voting and making it costly and confusing to register to vote – could reportedly end up in a Trump executive order.
It's a desperate attempt to deny millions of Americans their right to vote and avoid accountability at the ballot box this November. We can't let it fly.
The policies Trump is pushing aren't minor tweaks.
The SAVE America Act would disenfranchise millions of Americans – especially the 146 million Americans without passports and the 69 million American women whose birth certificates don't match their married names. [3]
Congress is right to reject something this extreme. If Trump can't even get his own party to agree to pass this, we can't let him turn around and try to force it on all 50 states and D.C. with the stroke of a pen.
Our Constitution doesn't give presidents the power to control who gets to vote. That authority belongs to Congress and the states – not to one man desperate to cling to power.
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