🧵The DOJ’s latest attack on voting rights could make it much easier to purge voters close to an election — and the Supreme Court might have the final say. Here's what you need to know👇
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🧵The DOJ’s latest attack on voting rights could make it much easier to purge voters close to an election — and the Supreme Court might have the final say. Here's what you need to know👇
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Why is he inserting himself into states rights? They used to call them outside agitators. Voting was ok until he thought his convictions and grifting might keep him from being elected so he started the attacks. The Heritage Foundation that produced Project 2025 researched and less than 1% for years.
(2/8) BACKGROUND: A safeguard known as the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) bars states from carrying out systematic voter removals within 90 days of a federal election. This “quiet period” is meant to prevent eligible voters from being wrongly kicked off the rolls too close to Election Day.
(4/8) Voting rights advocates are concerned that the DOJ’s theory could let federal officials and anti-voting groups do the list-building work first, then pressure states to carry out the removals individually. The Supreme Court could take up the issue next term.
(5/8) SCOTUS could also take on another lawsuit where Republicans are attempting to litigate a loophole into the law by interpreting the NVRA’s quiet period as allowing noncitizens to be systematically removed during those 90 days.