A federal appeals court on July 28 turned down an attempt from Democrats including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to block President Donald Trump’s overhaul of rules for mail-in voting, although judges said they may rule differently down the road.
A U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia panel upheld a May ruling from a federal judge in Washington that rejected a request from the Democrats to enter a preliminary injunction against an order from Trump that directed federal officials to compile lists of American citizens and compel states to only let people on the lists register to vote and vote in elections.
The judges on the panel said that at the present time, they cannot act against the president and his administration.
“While Plaintiffs have identified a number of serious questions concerning the lawfulness of proposed actions if implemented on the threshold of the upcoming federal election, this case likely is unripe for review in its present posture,” the panel said in a per curiam opinion, reported the Epoch Times.
“If the defendant agencies take steps to implement the Executive Order in a manner that violates federal law or the Constitution, Plaintiffs can promptly seek relief, which the district court and this court can decide in as expeditious a manner as circumstances require.”
While the decision looks like a victory for election integrity, it actually reinforces the case for passage of the SAVE America Act.
In dismissing the case on the basis of “ripeness,” in its simplest terms what the court said was “if the Trump administration takes any action to implement the Executive Order, then the plaintiffs can come back and sue to stop it.”
Given the Supreme Court’s recent fail on birthright citizenship, does anyone really want to leave election integrity in the hands of the courts?
Not us.
The only way to guarantee integrity in future elections is for the alleged Republican Majority in Congress to do its job and pass the SAVE America Act.
“Free, fair and secure elections are the bedrock of our republic. However, Democrat-led states across the country have failed to enact common-sense election integrity measures to combat fraud and cheating,” the late Sen. Lindsey Graham once explained.
““After millions of illegal aliens invaded our country during the Biden years, Americans want to know that only U.S. citizens are voting in our elections,” Senator Graham further remarked.
“What we do know is that in states that have started reviewing the voter registration files in order to weed out those [ineligible people] who might have registered, perhaps inadvertently… already there have been thousands of voter registration files identified in just the handful of states doing their own reviews,” Lee said.
Senator Mike Lee also noted that Democratic-led states are not reviewing their voter files and “refusing even to share their voter registration files with federal officials … which begs the question, why?”
The SAVE America Act is about three simple, common-sense protections:
- Proof of citizenship to register to vote
- Voter ID to cast a ballot
- Clean, accurate voter rolls
That’s it. Fair. Secure. Transparent. And yet—it’s being blocked. The tipping point comes when the pressure is too strong to ignore. When citizens across the country speak with one voice and demand action.
"Common sense requirements to prove your eligibility to vote in federal elections are not Jim Crow 2.0," said the late Sen. Lindsey Graham. "Every time we try to bring rationality to the debate around illegal immigration, the Democrats let the radical, left-wing nut jobs take over for them, but they won't for us."
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