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.
“siding with a group of Democratic state attorneys general”
Maybe I should be keeping a list of “actually many Democrats are doing stuff”
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 realized he did, in fact, have his green card, but questioned whether it was real.
“‘I don’t know, maybe it’s fake’ … The other guy says, ‘No, it’s real’ … That’s when they finally stopped”
They’ll threaten to do what they can to get it revoked just so they can come back for you:
“Do you think you’re a big shot just because you have a green card? I’ll make sure they revoke that green card of yours,” Reyes said, recalling what agents told him. “‘I’m going to do everything I can to get this paper revoked,’ an immigration officer told me.”
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.
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.
The author of the article wrote it that way. That’s how headlines work.
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
I’m very happy that the courts keep citing with democracy
