Originally published at: GOP Election Officials Say Trump’s Voter Suppression Exec Order Won’t Hold Up In Court
Hello and welcome back to The Franchise! Two current and former Republican election officials have now thrown cold water on President Trump’s new push to demand the creation of dystopian state-by-state citizenship lists and scale back the use of mail-in ballots in the upcoming midterm elections. As we mentioned last week, the likely unconstitutional executive…
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The point of the very obviously illegal executive order is not to actually make any of it happen. The point is to be able to complain about it when it gets struck down and then use it to cry “Election Fraud!” when Republicans get wiped out in November.
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Let me just say, as a former resident of Wisconsin, how happy I am that things have gone the way they have in my former home State. It definitely had been taken over by the Kochs and Walker and now we hear very little from either one of them, except through the still highly-partisan legislature. That’s most likely about to change, with or without re-districting.
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Ditto, @becca656 .
Tuesday’s Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice election expands the liberals’ majority on the court, from 4-3 to 5-2. Equally notable was the exceptional 20% margin by which Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Taylor won.
I’ll bet Wisconsin Supreme Court could write up a real good decision with legal reasoning (from the plaintiff opposing the Trump executive order) that would apply to all 50 states.
Seems like a real nice state to have a test case. Thank you to Wisconsin voters for trying to help to save our country. Please mention the thanks from others around the country to Wisconsin voters, Democrats, and activists when you see one. It won’t be instant, and it won’t be easy. But it begins with pulling in the same direction.
Everyone trying to save America needs all the encouragement we can get.
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I think the point of the obviously illegal executive order is to do both, commit voter fraud through illegal voter suppression and give an excuse to “shout election” fraud whenever Republicans lose any election(s).
It also forces groups to use up resources and energy to fight the order whereas for the Republican administration taxpayer money and Government employees are doing the work.
That is for Republicans this is a win regardless of what happens to the order and we should not discount that the intent of the order, regardless if it is upheld in the courts, is voter fraud and interference with both election administration and election results.