https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-court-pick-josh-divine-literacy-tests_n_6835e04ae4b0620c4725eae3
Last year, Trump nominated Joshua Divine, who once argued for literacy tests to be required for voting. He has since been confirmed as a federal district judge.
There's currently no significant push for this test that I'm aware of. However:
The Voting Rights Act has been gutted, and Trump is still advocating for the SAVE Act to be passed, requiring proof of citizenship to vote. This bill passed in the House and stalled in the Senate due to filibuster; the "Nuclear Option" to change the filibuster, while a long-shot, is still possible to get the bill enacted.
Both of these bills aim to return the country to Jim Crow-era voting. Whether the SAVE Act gets passed or not, literacy tests seem to be the next logical progression of Republican efforts to revert back to pre-Civil Rights voting laws.
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@vivify saidI'd be in favor of a sanity test.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-court-pick-josh-divine-literacy-tests_n_6835e04ae4b0620c4725eae3
Last year, Trump nominated Joshua Divine, who once argued for literacy tests to be required for voting. He has since been confirmed as a federal district judge.
There's currently no significant push for this test that I'm aware of. However:
The Voting Rights Act h ...[text shortened]... e the next logical progression of Republican efforts to revert back to pre-Civil Rights voting laws.
a) The world is flat. (T/F)
b) Donald Trump won the presidential election of 2020. (T/F)
c) The world is about 6,000 years old. (T/F)
d) Joan d'Arc was the wife of Noah of the Ark. (T/F)
e) Lions were vegetarians in the Garden of Eden. (T/F)
f) It's ok if a president tells a whole lot of lies, pardons hardened criminals, takes emoluments from foreign governments in exchange for unknown favors, and makes a whole lot of money on the side while in office. (T/F)
@moonbus saidg) Should someone convicted of 34 felonies be president of the United States?
I'd be in favor of a sanity test.
a) The world is flat. (T/F)
b) Donald Trump won the presidential election of 2020. (T/F)
c) The world is about 6,000 years old. (T/F)
d) Joan d'Arc was the wife of Noah of the Ark. (T/F)
e) Lions were vegetarians in the Garden of Eden. (T/F)
f) It's ok if a president tells a whole lot of lies, pardons hardened criminals, ta ...[text shortened]... ts in exchange for unknown favors, and makes a whole lot of money on the side while in office. (T/F)
h) Is it okay to argue in court that a president should be allowed to assassinate political opponents?
@vivify saidHere are a couple more that will weed out useless voters :
g) Should someone convicted of 34 felonies be president of the United States?
h) Is it okay to argue in court that a president should be allowed to assassinate political opponents?
- Should African Americans who impregnate a woman, leaves her and the baby fatherless, and often homeless, be allowed to cast a vote
- Should career criminals like George Floyd, be allowed to vote
- Should Muslims who promote Sharia Law be allowed to vote
- Should members of the DSA who promote socialism and aim to completely dismantle capitalism be allowed to vote.
No to all, in my opinion.
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@Rajk999 saidThe DSA has only 100,000 members.
Here are a couple more that will weed out useless voters :
- Should African Americans who impregnate a woman, leaves her and the baby fatherless, and often homeless, be allowed to cast a vote
- Should career criminals like George Floyd, be allowed to vote
- Should Muslims who promote Sharia Law be allowed to vote
- Should members of the DSA who promote socialism and aim to completely dismantle capitalism be allowed to vote.
No to all, in my opinion.
Which political party in America is actively advocating for public ownership of companies and profit sharing among citizens?
If you're against socialism, and favor removing socialists from the voter rolls, you should be asking for disenfranchisement of the MAGA Republicans.
They call it something different - state capitalism - but it's essentially the same thing. The government calls the shots of private enterprise, and takes some of the profits.
https://www.cato.org/blog/trumps-state-capitalism-hybrid-between-socialism-capitalism-wont-make-america-great-again
@moonbus saidD! Hahahah
I'd be in favor of a sanity test.
a) The world is flat. (T/F)
b) Donald Trump won the presidential election of 2020. (T/F)
c) The world is about 6,000 years old. (T/F)
d) Joan d'Arc was the wife of Noah of the Ark. (T/F)
e) Lions were vegetarians in the Garden of Eden. (T/F)
f) It's ok if a president tells a whole lot of lies, pardons hardened criminals, ta ...[text shortened]... ts in exchange for unknown favors, and makes a whole lot of money on the side while in office. (T/F)
Excellent.
@Rajk999 saidCongratulations for taking 10 people off the voter rolls.
Here are a couple more that will weed out useless voters :
- Should African Americans who impregnate a woman, leaves her and the baby fatherless, and often homeless, be allowed to cast a vote
- Should career criminals like George Floyd, be allowed to vote
- Should Muslims who promote Sharia Law be allowed to vote
- Should members of the DSA who promote socialism and aim to completely dismantle capitalism be allowed to vote.
No to all, in my opinion.