Good Trump put them to task last night on National TV, and Thune says he's going to make them vote No on voter ID.....

https://x.com/WallStreetApes/s.../2026685113430626475

[QUOTE]Originally posted by HRK:
Good Trump put them to task last night on National TV, and Thune says he's going to make them vote No on voter ID..... [QUOTE]

But Thune didn't say he was going to force a standing filibuster.Time will tell.

"Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”
-G. Michael Hopf, Those Who Remain

Perhaps nowhere is all this dysfunction crystallized more than in the embarrassing spectacle of a Republican government unable (or unwilling) to pass the SAVE Act, something that 95% of their constituents support, as do 70% of their opponents. Ensuring honest elections—at 85% support—is possibly the most unified issue in American history, and yet the issue hits a brick wall because a handful of GOP Senators don’t like President Trump’s bombastic style, and Democrats don’t care about honesty.

America seems to have become impotent in addressing real, concrete problems in citizens’ lives. This is what happens when weak men refuse to do what’s right for fear of being called names.

John Thune talks a lot but lets himself be manhandled by a semi catatonic octogenarian in a wheelchair. And, if we’re being honest, the reality is, he’s simply too much of a coward and or a fool to act in America’s best interests...or more likely, he’s owned.

A rational, normal person looking at this can’t help but wonder if there is any hope... Can the system be fixed within the current framework? If not, what then?

I think we may just see this summer. The tipping point upon which all the above rests is election integrity. If the SAVE Act fails and patriotic Americans realize that the GOP has basically sold out the country to elite grifters who manipulate elections from the school board to the White House, I wonder if we may not see large-scale protests and more by strong men across the country who have decided enough is enough.

https://www.americanthinker.co...a_tipping_point.html

President Trump States He Will Not Sign Other Bills Until ‘Save America Act’ is Passed

President Trump is again urging the Senate to pass the Save America voting act that is a core element of restoring voter integrity in U.S. elections. In his Truth Social post, President Trump notes he will not sign other legislation until the Save America Act reaches his desk.

https://theconservativetreehou...-passed/#more-281372

As the previous article states, the far majority of both party's members want this. Crazy they can't...won't push it through.

Either this is just a stunt for distraction and fundraising, or this really is a hill the Dems need to die on.

^^^ Without election fraud, what hopes do they have for winning national elections?

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Originally posted by HRK:
... Thune says he's going to make them vote No on voter ID.....

"We will put the Democrats on the record. We'll get it on the floor, have a vote, we will make sure the Democrats are on the record."

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I guess he never got around to doing that, did he?


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Might be he's deferring it until JD steps in and forces the issue so he can say it's out of his control to save his RINO contacts on both sides.


BTW, or, it just takes balls....

https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/2032513320633381300

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfr...dkt_nbr=010102180anp

SAVE Act Filibuster Fight Set for Next Week, Thune Says

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said he is setting up a high-profile floor fight next week over the SAVE America Act, a Republican elections bill that would require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register for federal elections and a photo ID to vote.

Sparks will fly with Democrats who say the measure would make it harder for eligible Americans to cast ballots.

Thune cast the coming debate as both a policy fight and a political test.

"And next week, I will be bringing the SAVE America Act to the floor," he said Thursday. "And we will be having a full and robust debate."

He argued the bill rests on "commonsense policies" and said it would require voters "to demonstrate that they're eligible to vote, and that they are who they say they are when they go to do so."

The move aims to satisfy some Republicans urging Thune to restore the "talking filibuster," which would force Democrats to speak continuously to preserve the Senate's 60-vote rule.

He added, "I can't guarantee an outcome on this legislation. But I can guarantee that we are going to put Democrats on the record."

President Donald Trump recently endorsed the tactic on Truth Social, saying he "fully support[s]" using the "Filibuster, or Talking Filibuster," to pass the act.

The bill has already cleared the House, and its text would bar states from accepting and processing a federal voter registration application unless the applicant provides documentary proof of citizenship.

It would also impose a photo ID requirement for federal voting beginning in 2027, while directing states to create a process for applicants whose current names do not match their citizenship documents and to make reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities who use the federal mail registration form.

Democrats answered Friday with an argument aimed less at election security than at voter access.

Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said the proposal would "make it more difficult for millions of Americans to vote by upending decades of successfully administered and secure elections with untested, dangerous limitations on voter registration."

In a separate floor speech this week, Durbin called the bill "a solution in search of a problem" and said the current law already makes noncitizen voting in federal elections illegal.

The immediate question now is timing.

Thune indicated that the bill is expected next week; however, as of Thursday's adjournment, the Senate's official daily schedule showed the chamber would reconvene on Monday to address a judicial nomination, and deliberations on the Act had not yet been scheduled.

Federal law already makes it unlawful for noncitizens to vote in federal elections, and the national mail voter registration form already requires applicants to affirm they are U.S. citizens.

Related.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/...YZazzPbVG8hQxiSK8%3D

Supreme Court to Decide if Federal Ballots Received After Election Day Are Counted

An appeals court previously held that a Mississippi law allowing late-arriving ballots to be counted violated federal law.

The U.S. Supreme Court on March 23 will hear Mississippi’s appeal against a lower court ruling striking down its law counting ballots received after Election Day.

The counting of ballots received after Election Day has become an increasingly contentious political issue in recent years.

Those who support the practice say it is necessary to maximize participation in the democratic process and that states should be able to craft ballot rules to accommodate voters’ needs. Those who oppose it say that allowing ballots to be accepted after Election Day invites fraud and erodes trust in the system.

The Mississippi law allows the state to count mail-in ballots that officials receive within a five-day grace period after Election Day. The law was enacted in July 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic to provide flexibility to voters.

Eighteen states accept mailed ballots received after Election Day if they bear a postmark made on or before Election Day, according to a National Conference of State Legislatures report.

Mississippi argues that striking down its law will cause upheaval in those states that allow ballots received after Election Day to be counted.

The Republican National Committee (RNC), the state’s Republican Party, and the state’s Libertarian Party sued over the state law, arguing that the federal election-day statute preempts—or prevails over—the state law.

Three federal statutes—U.S. Code Sections 7 and 1 of Title 2, and Section 1 of Title 3—set the Tuesday after the first Monday in November in certain years as the Election Day for federal offices. A presidential election takes place every four years; a congressional election occurs every two years.

President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14248 on March 25, 2025, stating that his administration would enforce those statutes and “require that votes be cast and received by the election date established in law.”

Several states continue to count ballots received after Election Day, Trump said, likening the practice to letting individuals who show up three days after Election Day, possibly after a winner has already been declared, vote in person at a voting precinct.

A federal district court in Washington state blocked part of the executive order in January.

The respondents, including the RNC, challenged the state law, saying that federal laws both establish a uniform election day for federal elections and require that ballots must be received by that day.

Mississippi argues that its law allowing late receipt of ballots does not conflict with the federal election day law and that states are allowed to regulate aspects of federal elections that take place within their borders.

U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola Jr. upheld the Mississippi law in July 2024, finding that the Mississippi statute “operates consistently with and does not conflict with the Electors Clause [of the U.S. Constitution] or the election-day statutes.”

“In the absence of federal law regulating absentee mail-in ballot procedures, states retain the authority and the constitutional charge to establish their lawful time, place, and manner boundaries,” the district court stated.

The state appealed, and in October 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reversed.

The Elections Clause in the Constitution allows states to determine the time, place, and manner of federal elections, but also allows Congress to “make or alter such Regulations,” the appeals court ruled.

Many states had been in the habit of having two separate days for federal elections, so in 1872, Congress decided that all elections for the U.S. House of Representatives should take place on the presidential election day. In that situation, Congress had authority to act, the appeals court said.

Late Receipt Erodes Confidence

Christian Adams, president of the Public Interest Legal Foundation, suggested that the case was straightforward, and that it turns on statutory interpretation and “nothing else.”
“The question is whether the federal statute requires ballots in by Election Day,” he told The Epoch Times.

In his group’s brief, the foundation argues that the federal law preempts the state law. The federal statute established a uniform Election Day for federal offices to promote “finality, public confidence, and administrable election rules,” and allowing states to extend the receipt of ballots beyond Election Day has the effect of “prolonging federal elections after voting has concluded.”
Michael J. O’Neill, vice president for legal affairs at the Landmark Legal Foundation, said federal law established a single, nationwide Election Day, and that “an election cannot extend beyond that date without undermining both statutory meaning and electoral integrity.”

Allowing mail-ballots received after Election Day creates “uneven election practices and erodes public confidence,” O’Neill told The Epoch Times.

“It also invites uncertainty, delays finality, and conflicts with Congress’s intent to prevent precisely such rolling or prolonged elections,” he added.

Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, said in recent years there has been a “contagion” going through the states in which they are “gutting the very notion of Election Day and allowing votes to arrive and be counted days and weeks after an election.”

Judicial Watch represents the Libertarian Party of Mississippi, a co-respondent in the case.

“Your mailbox isn’t a ballot box,” Fitton told The Epoch Times. “The idea that you drop your ballot in the mail and it gets there whenever, and it gets counted—that’s not the way it’s supposed to work.”
Potential for Upheaval

Lisa Dixon, executive director of the Center for Election Confidence, said she hopes the Supreme Court will decide that the federal election-day statute prevails over the Mississippi law.
When ballots continue to be received for up to two weeks after Election Day, and the public sees vote totals changing “sometimes even weeks” after Election Day, that erodes public confidence in the election results, she said.

The court should decide the case quickly to give states time to educate their voters and update their written materials “so voters have time to adjust,” Dixon told The Epoch Times.

“We don’t want anyone to be disenfranchised because the deadline has changed,” she said.

The Center previously filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging the high court to take up the case.

Adams indicated he wasn’t overly concerned about the potential for temporary administrative upheaval in the several states that allow receipt of ballots after Election Day if the Supreme Court strikes down the Mississippi statute.

“The law is more important than North Dakota being offended,” he said, referencing a lawsuit his foundation brought against that state for counting ballots received after Election Day.

None of the sources interviewed for this article offered a prediction on how the Supreme Court might rule.

“Predictions are too difficult, especially regarding matters of statutory interpretation,” Adams said. “Coin toss at best.”

Other than - maybe - a righteous absentee ballot from a military member, no ballots that come in after election day should be counted. None of this business of, for example, finding ballots - all marked for the D candidate - in car trunks. In fact, I can't think offhand of any election where the R candidate benefited from fraud.

So, I'm guessing leadership of both parties is funded by fraud, and that, somehow, the SAVE act will block/increase the difficulty in committing that fraud.

Otherwise, it makes no sense.

Trump should veto this bill.

Though that is exactly the political pickle they intended to put him in. If he doesn't sign it, the left will loudly proclaim it is his fault TSA isn't getting paid. If he does sign it, they won and he lost.

^^^Yep. The Senate approved their bill unanimously. It still has to go through the House before it goes to the President.

Looking at the Congressional Record for yesterday trying to find out how this could possibly have passed unanimously I found:

NATIONAL OSCEOLA TURKEY DAY
Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, I ask
unanimous consent the Committee on
the Judiciary be discharged from fur-
ther consideration of S. Res. 647, and
the Senate proceed to its immediate
consideration.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The
clerk will report the resolution by
title.
The legislative clerk read as follows:
A resolution (S. Res. 647) designating
March 21, 2026, as ‘‘National Osceola Turkey
Day’’.
There being no objection, the com-
mittee was discharged, and the Senate
proceeded to consider the resolution.
Mr. THUNE. Mr. President, I ask
unanimous consent the resolution be
agreed to, the preamble be agreed to,
and the motions to reconsider be con-
sidered made and laid upon the table
with no intervening action or debate.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without
objection, it is so ordered.
The resolution (S. Res. 647) was
agreed to.
The preamble was agreed to.
(The resolution, with its preamble, is
printed in the RECORD of March 17, 2026,
under ‘‘Submitted Resolutions.’’)

Nice that on March 26, 2026 they found time to designated March 21, 2026 as National Osceola Turkey Day. Hard to soar like an eagle when you are surrounded by turkeys.

But pay, and back pay through the executive ordeer for TSA agents may have solved the problem.

The voters gave Trump a mandate and d-bags like Thune, Cornyn, etc. are slow walking it or worse.

Trump should use his influence to have Thune removed as Majority Speaker. Enough of putting up with his backstabbing. There should be 5 senators wiling to call a special meeting and Trump's white house should be able to twist enough arms to insure a leader that is with the agenda.

Why vote if the Save Act does not pass? We know the election will be stolen so why dignify the whole charade by participating in it? Bondi has had over a year to indict the thousands of Dems who stole 2020 and not one person has been held accountable.