President Trump told Republican lawmakers to not “worry about Easter” in order to stay in Washington to vote on a bill that ties Department of Homeland Security funding with voter identification requirements in the SAVE America Act. “I’m tying Homeland Security into voter identification, with picture, and proof of citizenship in order to vote,” he said. “Those two items are the most important thing having to do with homeland security so it should be part of the Homeland Security bill.” The president previously encouraged tying the two together in a TruthSocial post late Sunday, saying he doesn’t think any deal should be made “with the Crazy, Country Destroying, Radical Left Democrats unless, and until, they Vote with…
Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco (R), a GOP candidate for California’s governorship, seized more than a half million ballots from a November special election to approve redrawing congressional districts in a way that favored Democrats. Bianco said his probe was sparked by a local elections group that claims the results were off by 45,800 votes. This group was looking at the difference between handwritten ballot intake logs, and the total number of votes reporter to the state. Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5796370-ballot-discrepancy-investigation/ #california #prop50 #election #gop #sheriff
Whether states can count ballots received after polls close on Election Day will land before the Supreme Court on Monday, bringing the issue of mail-in voting to the forefront in a case with major implications for this year’s midterm elections. The court will hear arguments over whether states can accept mailed ballots postmarked by Election Day but received afterward, stemming from Mississippi’s request to overturn a lower court’s ruling that federal law preempts its statute. Read More: https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5793767-supreme-court-mail-in-voting/ #midterms #supremecourt #scotus #trump #election #voting
President Trump is deploying ICE agents to airports across the country, as they face shortages of TSA workers due to the partial government shutdown. #ICE #TSA #Airports