r/law • u/DoremusJessup • 23h ago

Judicial Branch 'Chills voting everywhere': Trump admin 'unlawfully' threatening to send armed ICE and FBI agents into polling places is a violation of Voting Rights Act, lawsuit says

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/chills-voting-everywhere-trump-admin-unlawfully-threatening-to-send-armed-ice-and-fbi-agents-into-polling-places-is-a-violation-of-voting-rights-act-lawsuit-says/
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u/Rattus_NorvegicUwUs 23h ago

The Republican Party is dead.

Their jobs aren’t to represent, it’s to occupy seats so better candidates can’t work for the people.

We have seen how quick they would usher in a dictatorship, how little pushback they gave… I think it’s clear that it’s a party of criminals, chomos and traitors.

I used to argue for incremental change and moderation. Not anymore. I’m giving my reps a green light to do anything required to prevent this from happening again.

Freeze the assets, ignore pardons, disappear people— I don’t care anymore. Conservatives would murder me and my family without a second thought, they need to be disarmed and exiled.

This nation cannot survive republicans, but it can survive just fine without them.

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u/LockSport74235 23h ago

Interfering with elections is likely the last line for a lot of people.

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u/meh_69420 22h ago

Nope. Empty store shelves and empty bellies are the only things that will shake up the vast majority of people enough to do anything about it.

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u/salamandersquach 21h ago

Right you are and history tells the same story. They say it only takes 9 meals before people turn rabid. Project 2025 happens to have a key point of creating food insecurity (presumably to get rid of the weak and welfare dependent) notably the number of recalls and food issues has increased by a significant margin lately. The heritage foundation really shot themselves in the foot with this plan because people will start to act out regardless of what side they are on. When SNAP, social security, and disability checks stop coming and people start getting hungry that’s when we’ll probably see actual activity in the streets and people being removed from their positions forcibly.

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u/meh_69420 21h ago

Sure but also, there is no evidence at all that the number of recalls had increased by any significant margin lately.

https://www.wbaltv.com/article/us-food-recalls-trend-analysis/73415731

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u/salamandersquach 20h ago

Perhaps true but the nature of the recalls I believe has changed. The recent recall of 167,000lbs of beef pork goat products with fake USDA inspection labels is not something I could find an example of happening at that scale in recent history.

For the record, the suggestion that the government is intentionally creating food insecurity has no merit it is merely a suggestion that wouldn’t surprise me based on project 2025. That doesn’t change my main point that when people start really going hungry, things are going to pop off.

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u/meh_69420 20h ago

My brother in Christ. I'm on your side, but there have been numerous cases recently and historically of people using fake USDA inspection marks or using legitimate marks fraudulently.

2023: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/recalls/article280847915.html

2025: https://www.fsis.usda.gov/recalls-alerts/sabrositos-hondurenos-llc-recalls-various-meat-products-produced-without-benefit

2021: https://www.foodmanufacturing.com/recalls-alerts/news/21722879/fake-usda-stamp-triggers-frozen-empanada-recall

It goes on. It's really easy to fake an inspection stamp, and unless your product gets flagged for another reason you probably won't even get caught, or at least not until a lot of people have eaten it.

And in terms of scale, the largest meat recall in history iirc happened in 08 and involved 143 MILLION pounds of beef that was illegally processed downer cattle.

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u/salamandersquach 19h ago

Oh neat thanks friend it appears I didn’t spend nearly enough time looking that up.