The SAVE Act, which would require proof of citizenship before anyone is allowed to vote in American elections, will eventually be (we hope) headed for a Senate vote. The Democrats have fought against any kind of voter ID requirement, bitterly, and I leave it to you readers to discern why they are so adamant that we show a government ID for everything but voting. The Senate Minority Leader, Chuck Schumer (D-NY), has released a statement pronouncing the SAVE Act as "dead on arrival" in the Senate.
His reasons are the purest of corral litter. Fox News' Bill Melugin has more.
BREAKING: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announces the SAVE Act (GOP voter ID bill) will be “dead on arrival in the Senate, as it would “impose Jim Crow style restrictions on voting.”
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) February 2, 2026
Some in GOP have been demanding the SAVE Act be attached to the pkg of gov funding bills.
Attaching the SAVE Act to a package of funding bills may grease it through, but then, it may not.
Here's Schumer's horse-squeeze-laden statement:
Schumer statement: pic.twitter.com/8EJbxQkLw3
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) February 2, 2026
I recognize Senator Schumer's rhetoric here because, back when I was a kid helping out in my uncle's livestock auction barn, I spent a fair amount of time shoveling this kind of stuff out of stalls. Jim Crow-like laws, Senator Schumer? Really? Suppressing, disenfranchising voters? How? By asking them for an identification? Nobody in the national Democratic Party has any objections to an ID requirement for any other single thing in the lives of the citizenry of the United States. Not for buying a bottle of hooch or a pack of smokes. Not for opening a bank account. Not for boarding an airliner. Not for any of the myriad other things for which you have to show an ID. This, granted, goes a step beyond ID, in that it's a requirement for verification of citizenship; that's fine. Most everyone has a birth certificate (or, at minimum, the ability to obtain ID). Naturalized citizens have their paperwork showing that — in essence, their birth certificate as Americans.
Can we not expect that much out of voters?
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Honestly, if someone is so incapable that they can't be arsed to get a copy of their birth certificate, or show something else that proves citizenship, like a passport, then I'm OK with them not voting. Senator Schumer's remarks here are inflammatory and irresponsible. There can be no comparison to Jim Crow-era laws; that's incredibly stupid and unnecessarily agitating. There's no racial element here, as there most assuredly was in the Jim Crow era. You can either prove you're a citizen or you can't, and that applies evenly to everyone.
Senator Schumer's statement here is sure to get the talk about nuking the filibuster started up again. It's understandable, as the 60-vote cloture rule has been used by both parties to halt a lot of legislation. For many years, I was adamantly against getting rid of this rule, but I'm starting to wonder about that. While it's a two-edged sword — not if but when Democrats are in charge again in the Senate, this gives them just as much license to ramrod bills through with a simple majority — it has become very apparent that, the moment that the Democrats do get a Senate majority, it will be gone in any case.
Why not use that to our advantage and do it now? That's an argument that's starting to make more and more sense.
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