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**MARCH 29, 2024**
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Still Bring Us Your Tired
Bad policy and worse politics threaten the post-WWII imperative to admit
victims of persecution. But in parts of America, humanitarian migration
remains a cherished tradition. BY DARA LIND
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Will Voters Hear About Donald Trump's Deranged Health Care Agenda?
A second Trump term means tens of millions of people losing
insurance and chaos in the hospitals. BY RYAN COOPER
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Republicans Attempt to Invalidate Democratic Policy Because It's
Democratic
The latest student debt lawsuit targets a program that's been in
place for over 30 years and is mandated by statute. It would effectively
make it illegal to implement a law as a Democrat. BY DAVID DAYEN
Kuttner on TAP
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**** Georgia's Latest Attack on the Right to
Vote
The Republican legislature has a clumsy new effort to disqualify
registered voters.
Just when you thought that voter suppression tactics couldn't get any
worse, the Republican-controlled Georgia legislature passed a law late
Friday that adds new anti-democracy gimmicks to the existing repressive
law, the Voting Integrity Act, enacted in 2021. Under that law, any
registered voter in Georgia can challenge the registration of any other
voter.
Since then, Republican operatives have coordinated registration
challenges to over 100,000 voters, mostly in areas that lean Democratic,
literally overwhelming the election administration machinery and
pro-democracy groups. One man developed a database, Eagle AI
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that allows people and search for potentially ineligible voters.
In a ruling in January 2024, federal district judge Steve Jones upheld
the constitutionality of the Georgia law
. Voting rights
advocates led by the Fair Fight have appealed that decision to the 11th
Circuit Court of Appeals
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The new law, Senate Bill 189, adds several more odious provisions to
encourage amateur fraud-hunters to challenge the registrations of other
voters. It defines new kinds of "probable cause" for upholding
challenges that could lead to voters being removed from the rolls.
These include the presumption that the voter has died, or has registered
to vote in a different jurisdiction, or registered at a nonresidential
address. In many small towns, people have post box addresses the new law
would make it easier to remove them from the rolls. Under the law,
homeless people must also redo their voter registrations. Previously,
registered voters without permanent addresses have registered at
shelters or government offices.
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The measure is now headed to the desk of Gov. Brian Kemp for signature.
Georgia's secretary of state, Brad Raffensberger, won praise in 2020 for
resisting Trump's pressure to find enough votes for Trump to carry the
state. But as a partisan Republican, Raffensberger is a big supporter
of the voter suppression measures.
The Georgia ACLU will file suit against the latest bill, if Gov. Kemp,
as expected, signs it into law. "Access to the ballot is at the heart of
our democracy. This election 'Frankenbill' violates the National
Voter Registration Act," Georgia ACLU executive director Andrea Young
said in a statement. "We are committed to protecting Georgia voters. If
the governor signs this bill, we will see himin court
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The ACLU said the bill makes it easier for people to file "baseless,
mass voter challenges, requires all advance and absentee ballots to be
counted within an hour of the polls closing, changes ballot design,
makes harmful changes for unhoused citizens, and creates unrealistic and
burdensome requirements of election workers."
We will see more of this. The only antidotes are massive efforts to
register and turn out voters-and once Trump is defeated, four years of
judicial appointments to turn the courts back into impartial judges
rather than partisan hacks.
~ ROBERT KUTTNER
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