No SAVE Act? Congress Still Holds the Trump Card

No SAVE Act? Congress Still Holds the Trump Card

The failure of the United States Senate to pass the SAVE America Act is as regrettable as it is predictable. Noncitizen voting is already a federal crime in America. SAVE would have required voters to provide documentary proof of citizenship when registering to vote. States would have to purge noncitizens from voting rolls, too.Perhaps reliance on hostile state officials to implement the law would have rendered the SAVE America Act ineffective. …

Democracy Wins As Senate Quietly Kills Trump's SAVE America Act

Over an hour ago, the Senate voted on a budget resolution, which is the first step in the GOP’s plan to pass a skinny reconciliation bill to fund ICE and border patrol. A procedural vote on a budget resolution by itself is not important, but what that budget resolution vote bumped was very important. When Senate Republicans voted, they closed the door on Trump’s SAVE America Act.Punchbowl News noted that when the Senate moved on, debate would en…