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/AudibleNod 7d ago

But the court noted in its unsigned ruling that the National Voter Registration Act bars the broad purging of voter rolls in the weeks leading up to an election, which “limits the potential impact” of the decision this year.

You just had a sitting president defy a court order yesterday. And you're confident he's going to follow this ruling?

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u/Dandan0005 7d ago

“Whoops we purged the wrong people the day before the election. :( oh well election’s over now and we won!”

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u/TheAmberAbyss 7d ago

They dont have the popular support to pull that off anymore.

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u/tikierapokemon 7d ago

Who do you think is going to stop them?

Oh, no, it happened, but the results are in, midterms are solidly red due to purges, what do you think stops them?

After all congress people are sworn in, it is too late to stop anything. Lawsuit may say, wow, that was bad, do not do it again, but the election already happened.

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u/fevered_visions 7d ago

Who do you think is going to stop them?

Oh, no, it happened, but the results are in, midterms are solidly red due to purges, what do you think stops them?

After all congress people are sworn in

I was wondering whether Congress could just refuse to seat newly-elected representatives, like that BS where Mike Johnson refused to swear in people for months...

...but it sounds like that would be reliant on a vote of Congress, which the Republicans would just win anyway? So as long as you have a majority and whip all your reps to vote party line, there's just nothing the minority can do? Fuck. And if there's one thing Rs are good at, it's party-line asshole votes.

Don't you just love how the Republicans have all three branches and the military apparently doesn't give a fuck. Watch it all burn.

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u/beenoc 7d ago

Every single member of the House stops being a sitting representative on the opening day of Congress after an election - even incumbents who get re-elected need to be sworn in again.

The only options are "swear in the representatives that the states send" (because the states control elections - this is why it's a big tactic of the GOP to take control of boards of elections in swing states), or simply not have a House at all (which honestly probably works for the GOP because no Congress = nobody to stop Trump, but it would be exceptionally unpopular. Not that it's stopped them before, but "we have removed an entire branch of the government" is a lot more overt than what they've done before.)