House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries (DN.Y.) on Thursday condemned President Trump's recent executive order to make voting rules stricter, calling it an illegal grip of power that will be quickly rejected by courts.
“The executive order recently issued by President Trump is not worth the paper it was written,” Jeffries told reporters at the Capitol. “It will be challenged in court and will be invalidated.”
Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order designed to overhaul how elections will take place across the nation. The central part of the order is the mandate of a new citizenship obligation, forcing the state to demonstrate a passport, driver's license or other form of government ID to register.
Under current federal law, future voters must pledge their pledge that they are citizens to obtain registration but will not create an ID. Violators can face perjury.
Trump and his GOP allies have cast stricter rules as a key commonsense change in excluding voter fraud that the president and many Republicans argued in 2020 was the sole reason for President Trump's victory over Trump.
However, they did not generate evidence to support the claim, and the court dismissed more than 60 cases and challenged Biden's victory.
Democrats are opposed to stricter voting rules, and with that in mind, they point out that cases of voter fraud are extremely rare in the United States, and they say Trump's executive order has a more ominous purpose.
Jeffries said Thursday that Republicans have “zero credibility” when it comes to protecting elections and protecting democracy. Aside from Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election based on false claims of fraud, Jeffries also pointed to GOP's recent efforts to redraw the map of North Carolina's Congress.
The Tarheel state has been split between the parties by about 50/50 and recently elected a Democratic governor and attorney general. However, Republican gerrymandering has a strong support for the US home GOP, where the state delegation was evenly divided in the last Congress (seven Republicans and seven Democrats), but now Republicans, leaning heavily under the new map of 10 to 4.
“Republicans have actually concluded that voter suppression is an election strategy,” Jeffries charged. “These people in the house aren't even the majority for now unless it's because of the terrible, midway through, very partisan gerrymanders that happened in North Carolina. Think about that.
“Please take a break.”
