(#6222) These next 8 plus months are going to be hell!

      The desperation coming out of the White House will only ramp up as we keep getting closer to the midterm election. If all we citizens are allowed to vote then trump knows he is done for. He knows that in a way that scares the already leaking crap out of him. So his big plan to redistrict isn't working out like he had hoped so now his plan is to muscle the weak republican party into passing a voter restriction and denial bill that he can use to disenfranchise 10's of millions of mostly democratic voters. Even though some of his previous voters have turned against him he thinks he can still get enough to save his majority in Congress.
     He may well be correct about that if he can get the Congress to pass his bill that effectively applies a poll tax for a right to vote. A previous Supreme Court decision in Harper v. Virginia Bd. of Elections | 383 U.S. 663 (1966), determined it violated the fourteenth Amendments Equal Protection Clause. But seriously, with the current Supreme Court made up of a majority republican affiliation do you think for one minute they will find this bill, if it becomes law, unconstitutional? they will bend themselves sideways in order to approve this dishonorable bill constitutionally. Which is why it must end in the Senate after already passing in the house on a solely republican partisan vote.
     Right now in the Senate a 60 vote threshold is needed to be attained to bring a bill forward for a vote. That is the filibuster everyone has probably heard of. If the bill gets 60 votes to move forward then it can pass and move to trump for signing with only 50 votes. However there is no way the democrats will help the republicans get to the 60 vote filibuster threshold. So republicans, who have been adamant about not ending the filibuster will get some heavy pressure from trump to do just that. A simple 50 vote majority vote can end the filibuster forever and then a simple 50 vote on the bill could be attained to pass it. Will republican Senators who say they will protect the filibuster be able to withstand the hurricane of pressure coming from the bellicose trump whose current desperation is inescapable?