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  The SAVE Act Is Dead, Fulton County Is Fighting Back; So, Of Course, Trump Wants To Seize Control Of The Election Here's everything you need to know after a day of fast moving developments Joyce Vance Feb 27 The SAVE Act appears to be dead, at least for now. Trump wanted his party to enact the SAVE Act because it was supposed to make it more difficult for citizens he thinks are Democrats to vote: Its strict ID requirements would have impacted poor people, elderly people, students, married women, and others. Although Trump pushed hard for its passage, most recently during the State of the Union address, enough Senate Republicans defected to make passage a possibility too remote to pursue. Republicans attempted a “talking filibuster” to get the bill across the finish line, but the procedural unity that would have required failed to materialize. Per  Punchbowl News , North Carolina’s Thom Tillis, Utah’s John Curtis, Kentucky’s Mitch McConnell, Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski, and...

The Fulton County raid is part of Trump's total war on voting And it's disturbing that a magistrate judge signed off on it. Lisa Needham Feb 13 Tulsi Gabbard at a White House event in October. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty) PN is supported by paid subscribers. Become one   While it may seem like the entire federal government is currently focused on violently attacking immigrants and anyone who supports them, that’s simply not true. A significant part of the federal government is also focused on destroying free and fair elections. Now, that’s multitasking. It’s honestly difficult to unpack all the ways in which the administration is undermining the safety, security, and constitutionality of elections in genuinely unprecedented ways. This isn’t intended to minimize the decades-long Republican efforts to dismantle the Voting Rights Act — looking at you,  John Roberts . Nor should we overlook that conservatives have long touted nonexistent voter fraud as a way to suppress votes in Democr...