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Supreme Court permits states to use SAVE database for citizenship checks

79 points · 105 comments · speckx

  1. goatlover · · focus · HN ↗
    Why do the courts even entertain this administration's requests when Trump has made it clear he wants to unconstitutionally take some form of control over state elections because he doesn't want Democrats to retake control of Congress?

    The only conclusion seems to be that conservative majorities on SCOTUS and the Eighth Circuit want this to happen as part of their unitary executive theory.

    An even more cynical conclusion is that they want the next two elections to be tampered with in favor of the Republican Party, so they remainin in control of the Federal government.

    1. sejje · · focus · HN ↗
      Do you mean that foreign nationals voting in American elections is what Democrats need to retake control of Congress?

      Which is the unconstitutional part?

      1. coin · · focus · HN ↗
        The States decide who they send to Congress to represent them. The Federal government has no right to interfere in how the States makes this determination.

        > Do you mean that foreign nationals voting in American elections

        In minuscule insignificant amounts. See The Heritage Foundation's own findings.

        1. petcat · · focus · HN ↗
          > The Federal government has no right to interfere in how the States makes this determination.

          The federal government is not forcing states to use the SAVE database. They are simply not interfering with states that want to use it to "make this determination".

        2. sejje · · focus · HN ↗
          What did he mean, then? How will this action to prevent foreign nationals from voting in American elections secure the win for Republicans?
          1. b5n · · focus · HN ↗
            Implying that this administration and its sycophantic accomplices act in good faith is itself a bad faith argument.
            1. sejje · · focus · HN ↗
              That wasn't my implication/argument
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