Is there any legal precedent for what happens when would-be voters are detained in front of polls by federal agents for bullshit reasons that definitely have nothing to do with their voter registration? If not, I'm sure there will be.
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Yep. There will be many such cases. Held for 24 hours, then released without charges. But, oops! They missed the election and couldn't vote!
They can sue, and maybe even get some money out of it months or years later, but the election is already over and they still can't cast their vote.
This is what's most likely to happen imo. And if any single polling station faces "resistance" he'll just use it to lock the whole country down.
There aren't enough federal agents. Even ice, to make a gigantic impact here.
This will only be a small part of the play.
For midterms for the house, sure there are
They already rigged districts and can focus such efforts on a handful of districts. Similar story for statewide elections, interfere with a single big city in a state and that could assure a senator.
“Let me just say stranger things have happened, okay? I’ll leave it at that,” Trump said.
I’d love to hear some specifics. I doesn’t feel like things have ever been this crazy.
Uh, J6 was a culmination of crazy.
Jim Crow only existed because whites were able to threaten and prevent blacks from voting (Thanks, Johnson).
Hitler basically had a coup handed to him but stayed technically "elected" again via fear and fraud.
There's a lot of crazy shit Republicans are doing and courts are allowing that should be unthinkable.
He does this imma get violent, first the flock cams then the brutality, this is his only warning.... Fuck these pedophiles mofos
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Mark it 8 dude he is going to do this.
OVER THE LINE
except we're way past those already
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Subway sandwiches on standby.
They want 1940s Germany let’s give them 1730s France
Newsmax’s Wayne Allen Root interviewed Trump just after midnight Tuesday morning,
Ok first of all, wtf is this?
Again…
I'm so surprised I can't believe this.