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Wouldn’t he basically need a constitutional amendment to do this. Which would be almost impossible these days.
Hard to say. voting is up to states for methodology but like we did have restrictions on state due to discrimation till recently that would not allow them to change their rules or purge voters like they do again nowadays.
No. Federal government could always regulate elections. We used to require southern states to get federal governments permission before they can change their state election laws, so that they cant make racist election laws, but then the supreme court struck down that part of the Voting Right Act, then southern states immediately enacted Voter ID Laws.
Now that republicans have a trifecta in federal government, they are doing an uno reverse to regulate blue states like we used to regulate southern states.
The VRA was an extension of the fourteenth amendment. And the federal government never said the racist states had to do X. They said the states had to submit changes to the federal government to make sure they weren't racist and thus unconstitutional.
Trump's stuff doesn't have any of that grounding.
Well if all the red and swing states do it, they will still win.
Yup. He can try for a reverse VRA but it's going to be a pretty big fight if he does.
how hard can it be when you hold the Senate, Congress, and the supreme court?