Texas Sues Biden Admin Over Verification of 450K Voters

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the Biden-Harris administration this week over its refusal to verify the citizenship status of roughly 450,000 voters on state rolls who potentially are ineligible to vote.

Paxton filed the lawsuit Tuesday against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Ur M. Jaddou.

At issue is that the voters in question “registered without a State of Texas-issued driver’s license or identification card.”

“While the majority of the voters on the list are likely citizens who are eligible to vote, Texans have no way of knowing whether or not any of the voters on the list are noncitizens who are ineligible to vote without additional information,” Paxton wrote in the announcement of the lawsuit.

Republicans across the country, in addition to former President Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee, are making election integrity a top priority heading into the Nov. 5 election.

Paxton sent a letter to the Biden-Harris administration on Oct. 7, demanding their cooperation to ensure that noncitizens were not on the state's voter rolls. Two days later, Jaddou directed Paxton and Texas officials to the administration’s “Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program, calling it “the most secure and efficient way to reliably verify an individual’s citizenship or immigration status, including for verification regarding voter registration and/or voter list maintenance.”

In his lawsuit, Paxton said SAVE was insufficient. The Texas voter registration system, he wrote, does not contain any “DHS-issued immigration identifier[s].”

Thank you for referencing that article Eleutheria5. Please note that the following critique is directed at corrupt (imo) federal government and not at you.

"Texas Sues Biden Admin Over Verification of 450K Voters"

FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

From related threads ...

Regarding non-citizens voting, desperate Democrats are actually wrongly demanding that the states nullify the Constitution's "Uniform Rule of Naturalization Clause."

More specifically, the congressional record shows that post-Civil War lawmakers had expressed their concern that states who allow non-citizens to vote wrongly nullify that clause.

"Article I, Section 8, Clause 4: To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization [emphasis added], and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;"
" If the States can admit to the elective franchise those who are not citizens, thereby neutralizing the votes of citizens, not only the Federal power of naturalization becomes a nullity, but" * * * * "a minority of citizens by the aid of aliens may control the government of the States, and through the States the government of the Union [emphasis added]." —Appendix to the Congressional Globe, 1868. (See near middle of 1st column.)
" Whatever difference there may be as to what other rights appertain to a citizen, all must agree that he has the right to petition and also to claim the Protection of the Government. These belong to him as a member the body politic, and the possession of them is what separates citizens of the lowest condition from aliens and slaves. To suppose that a State can make an alien a citizen or confer on him the right of voting would involve the absurdity of giving him the direct and immediate control of the action of the General Government, from which he can claim no protection and to which he has no right to present a petition [emphasis added]." —Appendix to the Congressional Globe, 1868. (See bottom half of 1st column.)

Next, the Constitution's drafters gave the states, not the feds, the power to decide voter qualifications, evidenced by Article I, Section 2, Clause 1 (1.2.1).

"Article I, Section 2, Clause 1: The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature [emphasis added]."

Note that 1.2.1 gives state-qualified citizens the power to vote only for representatives, not senators or POTUS. But the states later gave ordinary citizen voters the power to vote for federal senators too.

And it remains that voters still don't have the express constitutional power to vote for POTUS any more than illegals do. The fact that we do vote for POTUS is deceptive smoke and mirrors by the corrupt, constitutionally undefined political parties, probably intended to make us deplorables think that we are in control of the Oval Office.

After all, constitutional drafters established the Electoral College to make sure that the right person is in the wartime Oval Office.

At the other extreme, the Electoral College is MAJOR OVERKILL for making sure that the right person is in the peacetime Oval Office to make sure that your mail is delivered promptly, the US Mail Service being one of the very few MAJOR powers that the states have given to the feds to dictate peacetime domestic policy.

"Article I, Section 8, Clause 7: To establish Post Offices and post Roads;"
"It is one of a few government agencies explicitly authorized by the Constitution of the United States." (non-FR)
The congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, a constitutional lawmaker, had clarified the federal government's constitutionally limited powers as follows.
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.

In other words, if a given federal social spending program is not reasonably related to the Mail Service, then you can bet that it is unconstitutional, based on stolen state powers, and win your bet probably most of the time.

And all that the corrupt political parties are trying to do, evidenced by all the mischief that Democrats are up to to keep the Oval Office, including allowing illegals to unconstitutionally vote, is to retain control of the state powers that the post-17th Amendment ratification feds have stolen from the states imo.

Also, when Virginia Minor claimed that her citizenship automatically gave her the right to vote under the 14th Amendment's Equal Protections Clause, the Supreme Court clarified in Minor v. Happersett (Minor) that citizenship doesn't guarantee the right to vote, Minor living in the "wrong" state which gets us back to 1.2.1 above.

In fact, the justices had referenced 1.2.1 in the Minor case opinion.

"The members of the House of Representatives are to be chosen by the people of the States, and the electors in each State must have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislature." —Minor v. Happersett, 1874.

Again, what we're seeing now is that desperate elite Democrats and RINOs are trying to gift illegal immigrants the right to vote in order to try to stay in power, a slap in the face to all voting citizens, but especially to women who had to work hard for their right to vote, evidenced by the 19th Amendment, pioneered in part by Virginia Minor's work.

"19th Amendment: The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."

The bottom line concerning feds not supporting Texas, Virginia in removing noncitizen from their rolls is that the feds themselves are unconstitutionally interfering with a federal election imo, unthinkingly helping to nullify the Constitution's Uniform Rule of Naturalization Clause as much as renegade states are imo.

Regarding corrupt states allowing illegals to vote, also note that Section 2 of the 14th Amendment (14A), that amendment ratified shortly after the excerpts above appeared in the congressional record, is a penalty for states where ballot box fraud has occurred.

Especially consider the zero tolerance "hair trigger" wording in that section that should be a warning for any state thinking about rigging an election, letting non-citizens vote just one example of doing so imo.

Excerpted from 14A:

"But when the right to vote at any election"
"is denied to any"
"or in any way abridged,"
"Section 2: Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election [all emphases added] for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State." [Apportionment of Representatives]
"Section 5: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."

In fact, consider that the post-Civil War congressional Republicans who drafted Section 2 made it to discourage Southern Democrats (my words) from rigging the ballot boxes that Democrats are now alleged to have done for 2020, 2022 and possibly earlier elections!

"Because slavery (except as punishment for crime) had been abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment, the freed slaves would henceforth be given full weight for purposes of apportionment. This situation was a concern to the Republican leadership of Congress, who worried that it would increase the political power of the former slave states, even as such states continued to deny freed slaves the right to vote." —Apportionment of Representatives

Also, in addition to trying to tap the illegal votes of illegal aliens to try to stay in power, desperate elite Democrats recently unilaterally threw out 14+ million primary votes for Biden after his bad interview with Trump, giving Biden's votes to presidentially unqualified (imo) Harris, and need to be held responsible for violating Section 2 imo.

Consider that if this were a better world, the feds would be reminding all states before an election that the feds will be darkening the doorway of any state to investigate allegations of possible violations of constitutional voting integrity protections, including policing elections for violations of the Uniform Rule of Naturalization Clause.

But even with Section 2's zero tolerance wording, Pence and the J6 Congress still wrongly ignored allegations of vote-counting fraud imo.

Since Congress and renegade states have repeatedly proven that they are enemies of the people imo, it is now up to Democratic and Republican Trump supporters to effectively "impeach and remove" ALL (exceptions?) state and federal lawmakers and executives in November.

In fact, it's up to us Trump supporters to take the first MAJOR step in draining the swamp by supporting hopeful Trump 47 with a new, Constitution-respecting Congress, new state lawmakers too, not only so that he will not be a lame duck president from the first day of his second term, but will support him to quickly finish draining the swamp, including getting compromised judges off of the bench.

Finally, let's not allow the anti-Trump media try to fade our memories of what we witnessed on July 13.

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