In a press conference this week, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-Louisiana) pushed for voter ID laws, citing the fact that private industries sometimes require identification — including the Olive Garden. “Show a picture to vote — not a complicated subject,” Scalise said, adding, “Nowadays, if you want to go to Olive Garden to get unlimited pasta, you gotta show a picture ID.”…
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President Donald Trump delivered a speech to the nation on Thursday night, sowing doubts in the U.S. election system and claiming that drastic changes were needed, despite presenting no new or substantiated evidence that any past election was affected by fraud. Trump was expected to deliver a missive rehashing the results of the 2020 presidential race, in which he legitimately lost to former…
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On Wednesday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) condemned President Donald Trump’s decision to stall the signing of a bipartisan housing bill, saying his decision “just doesn’t make any sense.” The 21st Century Road to Housing Act, cosponsored by Warren, passed with bipartisan support on Tuesday with support from 358 members of the House. Only 32 lawmakers voted against the bill.
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President Donald Trump’s priority elections bill has languished in the Senate for the past several weeks as some GOP politicians hesitate to upend precedent for voter registration in federal elections before the midterms. That hasn’t stopped lawmakers in several red states from introducing similar changes for their elections. Certain provisions that mirror the SAVE America Act — particularly…
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday issued a second executive order on elections, this one giving the U.S. Postal Service unprecedented oversight over who is voting by mail, a move experts and state election officials said will quickly draw legal challenges. The order, titled “Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections,” says that states can send the U.S.
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A signature piece of voting legislation championed by President Donald Trump may not have much of a future in the U.S. Senate, but in Florida, the future is here. Earlier this month, Republican lawmakers in Trump’s home state approved a sweeping overhaul of the state’s voter registration system, one that mirrors the core idea behind the federal SAVE America Act: requiring proof of citizenship…
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