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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHillary Clinton is never wrong about Republicans. They're planning to take away women's right to vote.
You know how people called women hysterical for predicting the right wing would take down Roe v. Wade (which they've done) and then attack access to birth control (which they're doing)?
— Hillary Rodham Clinton (@hillaryclinton.bsky.social) 2025-08-11T17:15:50.850Z
Hear me when I say that women's very right to vote is next.
www.npr.org/2025/08/09/n...

kerry-is-my-prez
(10,333 posts)Im not sure if thats in certain states or everywhere.
Wiz Imp
(10,433 posts)That bill has not and Will not ever pass the US Senate. That is not law in ANY states.
UpInArms
(55,378 posts)Shown Here:
Introduced in House (01/03/2025)
Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act or the SAVE Act
This bill requires individuals to provide documentary proof of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote in federal elections.
Specifically, the bill prohibits states from accepting and processing an application to register to vote in a federal election unless the applicant presents documentary proof of U.S. citizenship. The bill specifies what documents are considered acceptable proof of U.S. citizenship, such as identification that complies with the REAL ID Act of 2005 that indicates U.S. citizenship.
Further, the bill (1) prohibits states from registering an individual to vote in a federal election unless, at the time the individual applies to register to vote, the individual provides documentary proof of U.S. citizenship; and (2) requires states to establish an alternative process under which an applicant may submit other evidence to demonstrate U.S. citizenship.
Each state must take affirmative steps on an ongoing basis to ensure that only U.S. citizens are registered to vote, which shall include establishing a program to identify individuals who are not U.S. citizens using information supplied by certain sources.
Additionally, states must remove noncitizens from their official lists of eligible voters.
The bill allows for a private right of action against an election official who registers an applicant to vote in a federal election who fails to present documentary proof of U.S. citizenship.
The bill establishes criminal penalties for certain offenses, including registering an applicant to vote in a federal election who fails to present documentary proof of U.S. citizenship.
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Has not passed the senate
JT45242
(4,133 posts)They will push it through more quickly next time.
The heritage foundation and others will have version s ready to be introduced on day one of each session into rethug trifecta states next year and some of not all will pass.
I will predict it passed in Iowa legislature next year
mcar
(46,366 posts)betsuni
(29,297 posts)Thanks, idiots.
mcar
(46,366 posts)betsuni
(29,297 posts)Ignored nice white working class by not doing empty populist promises yelling and pointing finger rallies! Rigged!
mcar
(46,366 posts)Bring on Trump! Bring on the revolution!
slightlv
(7,946 posts)I was just talking earlier to hubby about how basically decent most of our democratic politicians are... especially the local ones. And then I tried to bring up Edwards and how he burst my bubble of innocence.
betsuni
(29,297 posts)Surrogates who campaigned for and supported him went from totally forgiving him for his Iraq vote and saying things like "I think Jesus would be very supportive of John Edwards" to urging people not to vote for Hillary Clinton because she was more dangerous than Trump and would plunge the U.S. into a war two seconds after being inaugurated.
slightlv
(7,946 posts)And that goes double if they're in public service. Medicine made sure the men could outwit nature when it came to their sexual desires and proclivities. Woe be it if they had to live under the microscope of "nature" like women. No viagra, no cialis, no testosterone replacement therapy. Just a wind down into old age like nature declared.
Instead, because from time upon time everything was centered around men, they got all their needs taken care of with the newest and best medications. And now we have 80 year olds boinking 15 year olds. I was disabused of the idea that democrats were better than that. Men are men; in many ways, it makes no difference who they are. But I STILL think we have more honest and ethical guys in the Democratic party.
poli-junkie
(1,596 posts)kerry-is-my-prez
(10,333 posts)DBoon
(25,148 posts)you may still have that right in the constitution, but effectively exercising the right can be made difficult.
Blacks in the pre civil rights era nominally had the right to vote, but obstacles placed in their way made actually voting difficult.
Fiendish Thingy
(24,098 posts)Hillary neglected to explain just how that would happen.
Raven123
(7,899 posts)I no longer believe anything is out of reach. We cannot depend on an idea that the GOP ignores and SCOTUS wont defend. I get what you are saying, but I have lost my faith.
Fiendish Thingy
(24,098 posts)And nowhere in the process is SCOTUS mentioned.
The court simply doesnt have the authority to overturn an amendment.
There is no room for interpretation- either women can vote, or they cant.
Meanwhile, nobody in the MSM is talking about the Epstein files.
(And Hegseth laughs and says to them made ya look!)
Raven123
(7,899 posts)It wasnt a distraction. It wasnt a joke. As crazy as it sounded, it appealed to enough people to start a movement.
Yes, the MSM is easily distracted. No, they shouldnt let go of the Epstein files issue and let Trump get away with distractions. A judge just said as much in denying released of the Grand Jury Records. They can address both issues.
roamer65
(37,974 posts)DOA.
I agree with you.
Suppression of womens votes? Very possible in states like Texass.
Quiet Em
(3,023 posts)Last edited Mon Aug 11, 2025, 07:16 PM - Edit history (1)
The Save Act was their first step towards it. Charging women with felonies for reproductive care would be another way. They don't need to repeal the 19th Amendment to make it very difficult for many women to vote.
Wiz Imp
(10,433 posts)Quiet Em
(3,023 posts)I will correct my post.
Still, they are indeed looking for ways to create barriers in States that prevent women from voting. I don't take their threats lightly. They are eroding women's rights. There is no denying that.
mgardener
(2,405 posts)Republicans will not stop them and the neither will the S C.
Wake up and look around you.
Fiendish Thingy
(24,098 posts)Only the naive and gullible believe that Trump is omnipotent, and that the states and the people are powerless.
Do you even understand how amendments are repealed? (It would take the repeal of the 19th amendment to take the right to vote away from all women)
(Hint: the Supreme Court has no role or authority over the ratification or repeal of amendments to the constitution)
mcar
(46,366 posts)the Constitution.
Fiendish Thingy
(24,098 posts)Stop believing the myth that Trump, and by association, the Roberts court, are omnipotent, and the states and the people are powerless.
Hegseth retweets a video, and everybody suddenly thinks the 19th amendment can and will be repealed based on a SCOTUS ruling?
niyad
(134,035 posts)theocratic, patriarchal, christofascist assholes have been saying for decades, and all the bs they are currently doing. They don't have to repeal 19A, just create insurmountable barriers. But you know this, so why pretend otherwise?
SheltieLover
(81,725 posts)Wounded Bear
(64,643 posts)IzzaNuDay
(1,342 posts)If Cheeto is diddling around with the 14th amendment and is successful, then the other amendments are fair game!
Wiz Imp
(10,433 posts)still-prayin4rain
(525 posts)Raine
(31,237 posts)Demovictory9
(37,113 posts)EX500rider
(12,774 posts)Native
(7,389 posts)I don't know about you, but I lost count a long time ago. And there are nine members on the Supreme Court, as you know. Adding to that is Hillary's perfect track record when it comes to predictions.
haele
(15,600 posts)Where the women are expected to be subservient to their spouses.
The only reason she was allowed to go as far as she did was because she was the talented daughter of one of the cult elites (like Tulsi Gabbard), and was granted the ability to be educated and pursue a profession so she might be able to assist the husband of her father's choice to rise higher than he had the capability to.
She has acted in ways where it appears still believes her husband (and his friends) is "right" when it comes to his judgement, no matter what her feelings might be And her understanding of the Law has always been colored by her religious sensibilities. She refuses to risk Hell if she thinks the situation reflects God's Will.
Sort of like Jane Roberts; the way she gets clients before the court, I suspect she also had a lot to do with politically positioning her spouse into a Supreme Court position.
They won't be required to give anything up, should they go with the guys. They're in a privileged position, and they're promised all due respect and rewards for their service to their "menfolk", no matter how evil it may be to others less fortunate.
They are proper Helpmetes. No one will piss on their graves. They can blame it on their husbands and religious duty.
Seinan Sensei
(1,645 posts)Same belief system associated with the Duggars from TLCs "19 Kids and Counting"
Coventina
(29,938 posts)It is so incredibly damaging.
I have no words to describe my grief and rage over losing so much of my life to a cult and its followers.
pnwmom
(110,324 posts)Fiendish Thingy
(24,098 posts)SCOTUS has no role or authority over the repeal of amendments, which is what it would take to remove womens voting rights.
Fiendish Thingy
(24,098 posts)SCOTUS has no role or authority over the repeal of constitutional amendments; it would take the repeal of the 19th amendment to remove the right to vote from all women.
EX500rider
(12,774 posts)Fiendish Thingy
(24,098 posts)Made ya look!
twodogsbarking
(19,353 posts)Hornedfrog2000
(866 posts)Why isnt the press asking if melania and donald conceived their baby on that plane?
rickyhall
(5,510 posts)cilla4progress
(26,526 posts)Obergefell
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obergefell_v._Hodges
chouchou
(3,313 posts)...for cockroach Republicans. It hurts women and ruins counties.
peggysue2
(12,597 posts)The assault on women's freedom and rights has been ongoing. Christofascists want their women submissive and two steps behind. Barefoot and pregnant will do.
We've already heard the 'suggestion' that women should be denied the vote.
We're too emotional, they say, too irrational, prone to hysteria.
These bastards haven't seen anything yet!
slightlv
(7,946 posts)It fell on ears that were listening just as closely as they were when I was hollering about taking away our bodily autonomy. And I'll tell you another thing that will happen. They will either move us out of the workforce (as they did after WWII), or restrict us to only certain types of jobs (as they did thru the 80's). We're going to be lucky if we don't end up being restricted to our own version chadors. They'll probably look a lot like the old, traditional nun robes. We are quickly moving towards not only a dictatorship, but one enveloped by a theocracy (much like Putin and the Russian Orthodox church). The NAR is one of the prime movers behind everything that happens in the maladministration, and they've been working towards this moment for decades.
Wiz Imp
(10,433 posts)bronxiteforever
(11,212 posts)Project 2025 wasnt going to be enacted until it was. T
MustLoveBeagles
(17,291 posts)Sometimes I wish she wasn't.
Ritabert
(2,613 posts)No sex, no household chores. no cooking.
Torchlight
(7,066 posts)Theres no law, statute, tradition, or norm they wont delegitimize, bully, or attack when it suits them. I once believed the system could withstand his assaults until I saw him wield the nations loudest bullhorns, dictating to the public what their opinions should be.
I thought wed learned our lesson. Instead, the lowest common denominators, bankrolld by the rich and foolish were elected, and have persuaded millions that ignorance is not only equal to reason, but superior to it, because it delivers simple, shallow answers fast that always blame someone else.
It's difficult to argue they won't try
Rebl2
(17,933 posts)they will try, but many republican women wont agree with that
hildegaard28
(792 posts)Let us vote at the ballot box, or we vote with our bullets.
W_HAMILTON
(10,438 posts)valleyrogue
(2,795 posts)is through another one. It is nearly impossible to do it given the numbers in Congress and the makeup of the state legislatures.
It is not happening--ever. The only scheme they can pull is with something like SAVE.
The only reason these idiot men--and it is almost entirely men--are yapping about the 19th amendment is because far more women than men vote Democratic. These men are so stupid, they cannot ever admit they have voted the wrong way for decades. Better to attempt to suppress the vote for Democrats.
W_HAMILTON
(10,438 posts)valleyrogue
(2,795 posts)They would have to start all over from scratch like a constitutional convention. Even then, the votes aren't there to have one.
W_HAMILTON
(10,438 posts)Fascists don't follow the rules.
Kaleva
(40,435 posts)Ping Tung
(4,370 posts)Last edited Tue Aug 12, 2025, 10:29 AM - Edit history (1)
Eliot Rosewater
(34,296 posts)But you know she wouldnt guarantee Medicare for all, so some folks said hey you only will do 99% of what I want so the hell with you I wont vote for you Ill let the other candidate who wont do anything I want take over
EllieBC
(3,639 posts)Eat shit I hope you suffer like youve made us all suffer.
Never ever ever want to hear from a voter of their conscience or sit him crybaby again. Never.
betsuni
(29,297 posts)czarjak
(13,678 posts)Agenda 2025. It is what you were told it would be. Best come to terms with it?
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