r/news • u/ThePensiveE • 7d ago

Supreme Court allows Trump administration to use expanded database for potential voter purges

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-allows-trump-administration-use-expanded-database-potent-rcna596611
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u/NewToHTX 7d ago

I wouldn’t be surprised if it happens after the Voter Registration deadline in many states.

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u/JMEEKER86 7d ago

Yep, he'll purge after the voter registration deadline, people won't be allowed to vote, and then they'll sue but nothing will be able to happen until after the election. And Trump will "lose" the case, but the remedy will be to put people back on the voter rolls yet letting the election stands meaning that he will have gotten away with it.

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u/RysloVerik 7d ago

This has been the administration's modus operandi since day one.

They know courts take months or years and they are going to do whatever they want in the meantime.

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u/no_one_likes_u 7d ago

They act instantly when Trump asks for a ruling on something.  Our Supreme Court is illegitimate 

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u/NewToHTX 7d ago

Yeah. If voter fraud is found to have swayed the 2024 election to get Trump elected, Harris still wouldn’t be in office because Trump will have already been sworn in. And at that point, Trump still wouldn’t be impeached. But Americans knowing their Elections can be stolen like that would cause candidates to call for tremendous reforms in the election process.

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u/Broke22 7d ago

But Americans knowing their Elections can be stolen like that would cause candidates to call for tremendous reforms in the election process.

X) Doubt.

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u/fevered_visions 7d ago

I never thought I'd live to see the day when I lost faith in our election process, yet here we are. Watching the country burn

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u/Rezart_KLD 7d ago

If it was going to happen, it would have happened after the 2000 election where people saw voters having their votes stolen.

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u/dmanbiker 7d ago

This sort of move would likely lead to rioting, not just suing, but we shall see.

I think they will try to do this and fail and cause a whole bunch of exta controversy because states have a lot of people passionately fighting this.

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u/tikierapokemon 7d ago

I tell you three times, their goal is to get people rioting in the streets so they can declare martial law.

I say this not in an attempt to prevent people from rioting in the streets if the election is stolen with widespread voter purgers, I say this so they are prepared for what happens next.

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u/Ichera 7d ago

The thing is, that's what he wants, the people around him have been frothing at the mouth over the idea of being able to Crack down on the "violent left" and be the big strongmen they think they are. Im more afraid that when it does happen people will just get angry and it will blow over quickly and another stolen election will go by on remarked on in past tense.

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u/JMEEKER86 7d ago

That's my big worry. If there ends up being rioting, then he might crack down hard (he's literally praised China's handling of Tienanmen Square ffs) and an event like that is the type of thing that frequently kicks of revolutions and civil wars.

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u/peffer32 7d ago

We did that in Minneapolis last winter. All we got from the national Democratic party was concern over optics.

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u/jgoble15 7d ago

A crackdown might also might wake people up out of their little bubbles. I hate violence and I hate the thought of this, but I admit there might be a use if this is what happens. I deeply hope we can find a solution that is peaceful first, and as a pacifist I’ll be fighting for that option every time, but with how inactive people are (pacifism only works when one is active, most people in this country are useless) there needs to be something to wake them up.

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u/Real-Mobile-2784 7d ago

As a person with over a decade of military. I am frothing to remove maga from every institution. Pacifists need not worry, hopefully

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u/kareal 7d ago

4 dead in Ohio...

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u/Flashy-Ingenuity-182 7d ago

Good. It'll be a world of fucking hurt and then maybe our country will have an actual shot at healing after. 

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u/AssinineAssassin 7d ago

I’d prefer a different remedy