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“June 25, 2013 -- The Supreme Court struck down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act today, ruling that the formula used to enforce the nearly 50-year-old civil rights law needs to be updated. In a 5-4 decision the court said that the coverage formula used by the government to determine which states are required to get federal permission before they make any changes to voting laws is unconstitutional. The ruling effectively puts the issue back in the hands of lawmakers to revise the law. And until then, the ruling effectively renders section five of the Voting Rights Act inoperable…”
"United States President Barack Obama is likely to order a series of executive actions before the end of the year that would transform the American immigration system, without consulting Congress. Republicans are—in a word—livid.”
“After six years of often bitter back-and-forth with congressional Republicans over the issue of immigration, President Obama announced he has decided to go it alone by temporarily shielding up to 5 million immigrants from being deported.”
“On the first day of 2015, more than a million unauthorized immigrants in California may be eligible to get at least one key document missing from their lives —a driver’s license.”
"Republicans tried to pass a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security and repeal President Obama’s executive actions on immigration. Senate Democrats filibustered it, and in its current form it’s dead, meaning we’re headed for another shutdown mini-crisis.”
"Monday passed without a deal to fund the Department of Homeland Security, bringing the agency five days from a partial shutdown as Republicans try to block President Obama’s plans for shielding millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation."
"Conservatives have demanded that any funding bill include a provision rolling back President Barack Obama’s executive action delaying deportations for illegal immigrants. Democrats, meanwhile, remain staunchly opposed to tying the two together, and that fight has kept Congress in a stalemate over the bill all week, sending DHS right up to the funding deadline."
"Interest rates will skyrocket, instability will roil the financial markets, the federal deficit will soar and the resulting "catastrophic" harm will last years. That is how Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew describes a debt-ceiling breach certain to cause a government default. Uncle Sam will be bankrupt. All national government operations will seize-up. All checks for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, veterans, contractors and vendors will bounce.”
"This dysfunctional enterprise is fictional, but in at least some respects it bears more than a passing resemblance to the United States government, which has a portfolio of roughly $1 trillion in student loans, many of which appear to be troubled. The Education Department, which oversees the portfolio, is playing the part of the loan division — neither analyzing the portfolio adequately nor allowing other agencies to do so.”
"In November, Obama signed an executive order that shielded nearly 5 million immigrants from deportation and also granted benefits to some parents of citizens and legal residents. However, the controversial move fueled an outcry from Republicans who alleged that Obama had overstepped the boundaries of his authority. In February, Hanen blocked the president’s action at the urging of a coalition of 26 states led by Texas.”
"While Republicans, particularly in the House, helped push the Department of Homeland Security to the brink of a shutdown earlier this year in protest of President Obama's executive orders on immigration, McConnell noted that he led the effort to end the impasse by bringing a bill Democrats supported to the floor.”
“The White House accused a federal appeals court of “misinterpreting the facts and the law” on Tuesday after it dealt a potentially devastating blow to Barack Obama’s hopes of granting legal status to millions of undocumented immigrants before he leaves office.”
“In a 2013 decision, the Supreme Court struck down key provisions of the voting law that required states to receive federal approval before they change election laws.”
"The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked a series of President Obama’s executive orders on immigration on Monday night, frustrating the administration’s efforts to shield millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation and delivering a major setback to a core policy initiative of the president’s second-term agenda.* The Justice Department said on Tuesday morning that it would appeal the ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court."
“As of August 2023, 34 states required voters to present identification in order to vote at the polls on Election Day. Of these states, 23 required voters to present identification containing a photograph, and 11 accepted other forms of identification. The remaining 16 states did not require voters to present identification in order to vote at the polls on Election Day.”
“On Dec. 9, the New York City Council is expected to approve a bill that allows legal residents who are not citizens to vote in municipal elections.”
“The U.S. Constitution does not confer any innate right to vote based on citizenship, but it does delegate the responsibility to manage elections to states. “
"New York City councilmembers voted this past Thursday to allow legal noncitizens to vote in local elections, but it is not the first municipality in the U.S. to enact similar measures. While New York City is the largest city to do so — with nearly 800,000 additional city residents now eligible to vote — 14 smaller U.S. jurisdictions have similar laws allowing noncitizens to vote in local elections. Most of those jurisdictions are located in Maryland, a blue state led by a Republican governor. The state's constitution authorizes municipalities to allow people outside those qualifications to vote without state approval."
“Undocumented immigrants in the U.S. may obtain a driver’s license in the following places: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington”
“Eight states have passed laws against ballot access, even as some progressive cities are extending local voting rights”
originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: Crowdpsychology
Do you feel Democrats now have the system locked totally in their favor? That JOE BIDEN would win again, even if his mind is gone?
originally posted by: carewemust
a reply to: Crowdpsychology
Do you feel Democrats now have the system locked totally in their favor? That JOE BIDEN would win again, even if his mind is gone?