The Senate is planning to debate and vote on the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, called the SAVE America Act, through this weekend as Senate conservatives warn that a failure to make significant progress on Trump’s No. 1 legislative priority could result in Republican voters sitting out the election in November.
The Senate is expected to vote Saturday on an amendment sponsored by Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), a staunch Trump ally, to bar transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports.
Then the Senate will pivot to vote Sunday on a motion to advance the nomination of Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) to serve as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, which would set up a final confirmation vote for Mullin on Monday.
He said there are “a handful of states in which some local elections openly allow noncitizens to vote” and where local officials have declined to explain how they ensure those noncitizen voters aren’t also voting in federal elections.
The issue of non-citizens voting in local elections has quite an interesting history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-citizen_suffrage_in_the_United_States
Many states let non-citizens vote historically, as long as they met residency requirements. It wasn’t until the “wrong” types of people started coming over (like the Irish) in the late 1800’s that some states started clamping down on the practice. And, believe it or not, non-citizens voting in Federal elections was not made illegal on the national level until 1997!
Hopefully the Democrats kill it. But if this passes, and the inevitable challenges make it to the SCOTUS, it will be interesting to see this case where the Democrats actually have the founders on their side, and the contortions the SCOTUS goes through to rubber-stamp the act in spite of their Originalism…
Don’t forget how long SCOTUS sat on tariffs before making a ruling (only for Donnie Dickhead to get butthurt and impose even more tariffs). If SAVE passes they’ll sit on it until well after the damage is done.
I can’t see how it’s constitutional.
But I also can’t see the supreme Court doing a damn thing about it.
In a decent country they could go ahead and do this and they’d never be voted in again.
