Trump Is Getting Tired of Losing Election Cases
www.theatlantic.com
Even the judges he appointed aren’t buying the arguments.
  • NekoKoneko@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    This is not to say that Trump has not had success influencing America’s electoral system, particularly in the past year. The president has elevated MAGA-friendly election deniers into the federal government, sicced the Justice Department on his political enemies, and drafted multiple agencies into his relentless hunt to substantiate his broad claims of voter fraud. The Supreme Court’s Louisiana v. Callais ruling in April gutted the Voting Rights Act and cleared the way for several Republican-led states to redraw congressional maps and eliminate Democrat-leaning districts with large portions of minority voters. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court rolled back campaign-finance restrictions on political parties, which Trump hailed as “A BIG WIN FOR REPUBLICANS.” At the state level, pro-Trump lawmakers have implemented miniature versions of the SAVE America Act or found other ways to support the president’s vision for voting. At least 10 states have voluntarily turned over the personal information of millions of voters to the Justice Department.

    Unfortunately, here’s the paragraph that reveals this article to be hopium/copium.

    I am holding out my own hope that voter anger will be impossible to gerrymander away. But the Supreme Court rubber-stamping racial gerrymandering will very likely result in an insurmountable bias towards the GOP in the House. With Virginia striking down the democratic gerrymander to counteract GOP’s huge gains in Texas, Florida and the deep south states, although I haven’t seen a detailed analysis yet, I assume democrats will now need +5-7% at least in general ballots to overcome new built-in right bias.

    That’s the thing about fascists who want to tear down a system. We need to win every fight to uphold our institutions; they just need to win once or twice. As Trump plans to do, they attack the chain at its weakest links, suppressing or invalidating votes and voter will in a few key left-leaning districts. Like most sociopaths Trump and his strategists - Miller, Bannon and Stone before that - know that compliance may not happen the first time they attempt to break their victims, so they keep trying things until they find what does.

    The DOJ losing so many cases is great, sure, but we absolutely cannot take lightly how harder their few victories have made it for us through gerrymandering, infinite PAC spending, and all the usual GOP suppression tactics. We will need to work as hard as we can this fall to make sure they do not subvert the will of voters.