Summary
House Speaker Mike Johnson has moved to block Democrats from using resolutions of inquiry to investigate Trump-era scandals, including “Signalgate.”
On Monday, he advanced a measure in the House Rules Committee halting these privileged resolutions until September 30.
Democrats had been using the tool to seek answers about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of encrypted apps to discuss Yemen airstrikes.
Johnson embedded the pause in resolutions targeting Biden’s environmental policies, effectively shielding Trump and weakening Congressional oversight powers.
You combined a good link with a false rumor.
The good link talks about voter suppression techniques: voter roll purges, questionable disqualifications, etc. All states do this, and some amount of purging is necessary (far lower than occurs), but this has been in place for decades. This is awful, but it’s a systemic hurdle for Democrats just as the Electoral College is a systemic hurdle. It’s not unique to 2024, though it would’ve been nice if Democrats tried harder to make most of it illegal leading up to the election.
As for the false rumor: no, bullet ballots were not “twenty times more” in swing states.
Most of the rumors alluded to by the original comment I was replying to are just wild, unfounded speculation. People claim “bullet ballots are proof that Elon Musk tampered with voting machines.” No, bullet ballots are proof that there are a lot of
low-information votersmorons out there who don’t normally vote, couldn’t tell you who any of their representatives are, are apolitical, but who just came out of the woodwork to vote for Trump because they really like Trump (and only Trump). That’s, like, Trump’s whole brand, and these people absolutely exist.