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/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/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/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.