Pennsylvania AG Josh Shapiro on Trump campaign's challenges to voting procedures

Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro joined CBSN's "Red and Blue" to discuss a federal judge recently throwing out a Trump campaign challenge to Pennsylvania's voting procedures.

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[volcrazy]

The funny part? The judge that handed down the ruling is a Trump appointee.

[gregoryM]

Donald is desperately running about with a very full diaper, shaking his rattles, and screaming at the top of his lungs.

[saoirsecushing]

Every republican president has given a recession but this takes the cake 🤕

When will Americans learn...

[DavidJ]

Democracies depend on norms — unwritten rules about how leaders and citizens should behave. One norm is forbearance — the idea that political power should be used with restraint rather than weaponized and taken to its lawful limits. Such norms have little standing in today’s Republican Party.

There was, for example, no constitutional barrier to prevent Wisconsin’s outgoing Republican governor,  Scott Walker, in cohoots with the state’s Repub Legislature, to strip the governor’s office of power before the incoming Dem governor could take office in 2019. But it violated the longstanding norm of American politics that the outgoing party accept the change in power that comes with losing an election.

North Carolina’s Republican Legislature pulled the same stunt in 2016, when the state’s voters elected a Democratic governor. Republican state legislatures, have also pushed gerrymandering beyond ethical limits. In Wisconsin’s 2018 election, Republican candidates received only 45 percent of the popular vote but won 63 percent of the state Assembly’s seats. In a 2019 5-to-4 Supreme Court ruling, the 5 Republican appointees on the court held that Wisconsin’s rigged system did not violate voters’ constitutional rights.

The 1965 Voting Rights Act was designed to end the voter suppression that had long plagued America’s elections. It worked as intended, until Republicans began devising schemes to keep minorities from voting. In 2017, North Dakota Republicans enacted a law that requires voters to have written proof of a residential address before they are eligible to vote. The law targets Native Americans who live on rural tribal lands, which don’t have street names and numbers on all of their roads. Here, too, the Supreme Court’s Republican appointees in a 5-to-4 decision allowed the policy to stand.

The idea of disenfranchising minority voters was hatched by the Republican-controlled legislatures of Indiana and Georgia. Enacted in 2006, Indiana’s law required residents to have a government-issued photo ID, such as a driver’s license or passport, in order to register to vote. Republican legislators knew who they were targeting. Minorities, young adults, and people of low income — all of whom tend to vote Democratic.

Since then, roughly 30 Republican-controlled states have enacted voter-ID laws. Some were forced to reenact their law after a court struck down the first attempt.

Although Republicans say that voter IDs are intended to prevent voter fraud, there is no evidence for the claim, and their real purpose is clear. As longtime Republican political consultant Carter Wrenn said: “Of course it’s political. Why else would you do it?” Republican lawmakers in Florida and Pennsylvania slipped up and publicly said that their aim was to suppress the Democratic vote.

But Republicans are playing with fire, because voter suppression lengthens the memory of those suppressed. The votes of Black Americans are now all but lost to the GOP. Latino voters vote 2 to 1 Democratic. Asian-Americans, who not that long ago sided with the Republican Party, are now one of the Democrats’ most loyal voting groups.

[davidellis]

Trump & The GOP " Suppress The Vote ! "

[katomiler]

"... the president is known to lie a lot about our laws, here, in Pennsylvania..."

[roberttobolski]

Pennsylvania is so far back in the dark ages it's pitiful. How did Florida get the count done so quickly and Pennsylvania take so long? Did someone misplace the chalk or the blackboard? Run out of pencils with erasers?

[MegaKurgen]

How do criminals get to become DA 's ?

[coolkid]

DONNY IS IN TROUBLE!!!! DONNY IS IN TROUBLE!!!!

[tcwwpqf]

I went to the polls today in person to vote for President Trump.

[jc-ywkm]

Trump's spirit is for the future of America, Trump 2020

[speakingonhowifeel]

I believe your time is coming to an end 🤗🙌🙏

[coolkid]

AWWW DONNY IS SCARED THAT THEY WILL PULL ON HIM WHAT HE PULLED!!!
HA HA HA LOL!!

[chellefell]

thank god someone is protecting us here in pa... and gov. wolf...

[neeper]

Trumps face blends in with the fall foliage.

[katomiler]

"Suburban housewives, please like me!" Desperation!!!

[skpjoecoursegold]

yes trump lies a lot.
get it right Penn.

[joealonzo]

During an interview Monday with Cincinnati’s WKRC Local 12, Kyle Inskeep asked:

I want to talk a little bit about the economy. Gallup reported last week, 56% of Americans said that they were better off today than they were four years ago, [which] would have been under the Obama-Biden administration. So why should people who feel that they are better off today, under the Trump administration, vote for you?

Biden’s hilariously grumpy and obtuse response was that 56 percent of voters should not vote for him.

“Well, if they think that, they probably shouldn’t, ” Slow Joe said.

He added, “Well, their memory is not very good, quite frankly. ”

Yeah, it’s everyone else’s memory that’s fading.

Biden is deteriorating and fading before our eyes, and now, rather than make the case for why people should vote for him, he’s just telling 56 percent of voters to go ahead and vote for Trump. You see, making a case for people to vote for him would require effort and mental acuity. It’s much easier to tell people to go away.

Regardless, do the math: if 56 percent of registered voters vote for Trump, Biden will only receive 44 percent of the vote. Has anyone explained that to Joe between Matlock episodes?

That wasn’t the worst part of Biden’s very bad Monday.

On Monday, Biden forgot Mitt Romney’s name, the guy who challenged Biden and Barack Obama in 2012.

[jab]

TRUMP: " I WILL FORCE RIGHT WING EXTREMIST VIEWS ON YOU REGARDLESS OF THE LAW AND WHAT YOU THINK."

[spicypeach]

CBS News when are you going to tell the USA people about Benghazi and who called for the hit on Seal Team 6?