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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFederal law makes it a *crime* to hold out appropriations to intererfere with right to vote:
Walter Shaub RetweetedAs
@waltshaub
notes, federal law makes it a *crime* to hold out appropriations in order to intererfere with individuals exercise of their right to vote:
https://law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/598
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Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Then, hes just a troll, right?
Can somebody please do something about our insane president?
leftieNanner
(15,149 posts)Since when have any Republicans cared if he followed any of those.
His response would be - "So MAKE me!"
And they wouldn't.
Because he is only targeting Blue states, they think it's fine and dandy.
PatSeg
(47,586 posts)and he just doesn't care. Why should he? He never gets held accountable for anything.
leftieNanner
(15,149 posts)BSdetect
(8,999 posts)fleur-de-lisa
(14,628 posts)SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)and there is no one to stop trump from doing any fucking thing he wants.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,600 posts)As
@ThePlumLineGS
rightly noted, this is the very scenario we forecasted during this deranged presidents impeachment.
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?s=20 Prescient. Current. Timeless. Acceptable?
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crickets
(25,983 posts)aggiesal
(8,923 posts)c-rational
(2,595 posts)louis-t
(23,297 posts)Or insane orange posse says "Ah's jes jokin'."
malaise
(269,157 posts)Lock him up! Lock him up!
Evolve Dammit
(16,763 posts)We need lots of sunlight right now. I'm hoping a group from CDC speaks out. And Pompeo staff. And while I'm wondering, how is Covid doing in the WH? Maybe they'll all just be carried out like the end of a Jim Jones "rally".
duforsure
(11,885 posts)Who now are corrupting the courts. How high? Then we'll know if we have laws , or trump justice.
Midnight Writer
(21,795 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,600 posts)This is one of those lies that'll be lost in the history books b/c there aren't enough pages. But it's menacing in this moment. The president is spreading egregiously false information that will incite his base (already seeing it on my FB feed) and fuel talk of a rigged election.
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1. Michigan sending absentee ballot applications not ballots to voters
2.
@JocelynBenson
one of best Secretaries of State in country & has authorization to do so
3. Threatening to block funding to sway election outcome exactly what Trump impeached forLink to tweet
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Trump would totally try to block FEMA funding to a state experiencing catastrophic flooding because he doesnt understand the difference between ballots and ballot applications.
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mahatmakanejeeves
(57,600 posts)This tweet has now been resent to say "applications" were sent to all voters. But it's still not true that this was done illegally. All Michigan voters are, by state law, entitled to vote by mail. Applications are sent out all the time, including before the coronavirus pandemic.
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Wednesdays
(17,408 posts)Rump hasn't yet met a law he couldn't ignore.