Still another update on the SAVE Act
Is there still hope of its passing? Mike Lee says maybe:
“Okay, important update on the Save America Act and the effort to get it passed,” Lee said in the video. “Look, I am guardedly optimistic. We’ve turned kind of a corner. Over the last few days, there’s been some uncertainty about exactly what procedure we will be and will not be using. In the end, we’ve been working closely with Leader Thune and his staff, and they’ve been great to work with. What we’re coming up with is something that I think is best described as a hybrid version of the talking filibuster.”
I’ll believe it when I see it.
I think it’s important to pass the bill. Even if it’s tied up in the court system afterward, it needs to be passed. And even if SCOTUS rules against it, that could set a precedent to indicate that, if the Democrats come to power and pass their own beloved “For the People Act” to force states to relax their own voting rules for federal elections, that bill might be found unconstitutional as well.
I do worry if voting isn’t cleared up by next year that vote fraud will change congress.
And that will sink President Trump
Skip (4:53 pm), it sure seems to me that that’s exactly where we’re headed. The other guys win, and there will be no turning back.
“But always— do not forget this, Winston— always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face— forever.”
— George Orwell, “1984”
DC establishment: “We’ve flooded the country with tens of millions of freeloading, hostile foreigners waving their own flags, run up South American style levels of debt that can never (and will never) be repaid, and turned Wall Street into a casino and a figurative Epstein’s island for insider trading. And we’re going to fight tooth-and-nail against the notion that elections should be honest, transparent, and that everyone participating in them as voters should be held to a single, reasonable standard of identifying themselves, voting on a single day.”
Also DC establishment: “Why you so mad?”
Thune will do everything he can to ensure it does not pass, while claiming that he did everything he could to pass it.
One way around passing a federal bill is to pass similar bills at the state level. It looks like even in my far left California, there is a chance a voter ID law may pass. A voter ID initiative has almost certainly qualified for the 2026 ballot. The Democrats will spend huge amounts on ads to stop it, but the voters lean more conservative on ballot initiatives than they do voting for candidates. Here is the initiative’s campaign website
https://www.reformcalifornia.org/cavoterid/home
With McConnell, Murkowski, Curtis and Tillis against it there is not a majority to proceed without at least one minority vote – probably why Fetterman backed off his support for the bill recently. No debate, no fillibuster, no late nights, no cloture votes just a failed vote to proceed.
The Four Stooges. TDS on “the right.”
— Skip
Voting absolutely will not be cleared up by 2026 or 2028 (though it could potentially be a lot better by 2028). The GOP has to win in spite of that.
Which is entirely possible. The voting issues are real, but not insurmountable. The problem is that a big chunk of the GOPe wants to lose.
— Dwaz
Yeah, but the very fact that he’s already having to go further down that road than he initially intended to go is telling. That tells me that they’re getting a lot of pressure behind the scenes to pass this, both from Trump and from their voters.
Nothing is settled yet.
If SCOTUS rules against this the people will have had enough of this oleography. SCOTUS was a terrible idea that mutated horribly, it was never considered to be a co equal branch of the government. The judiciary needs to be tamed and neutered.