This is an especially worrying statement when facial recognition can be inaccurate, biased, and generally make mistakes. Basing whether someone should be in the US or not, and ignoring physical media like a birth certificate, is ripe for disaster bsky.app/profile/jose...

..it's power to courts to give them the perspective and skepticism to quickly dismiss unfounded government claims. And most importantly, it’s power to the voters, who should know how critical their participation is. Democracy depends on the people and their belief in, and defense of, our elections.

It’s all laid out in the March order. But knowing what’s coming is power. It’s power for states who are constitutionally mandated to run our elections to prepare, including by defending their election officials and voters... /4

... for DOJ to intimidate election officials and others through politicized investigations; and for federal agents and agencies to interfere with how states run elections and count votes. /3

Specifically, the March order sets the predicate and opportunity for DOGE and DHS in the coming months to make false claims about widespread non-citizen voting; for DHS to issue misleading reports about the security of election equipment ... /2

Flooding blue cities with soldiers on the pretext of fighting crime would be an unprecedented abuse of power that would violate states’ rights and threaten our most fundamental liberties. The plan is profoundly un-American. And it is illegal. 12/12