Cleta Mitchell is the founder of the Election Integrity Network and one of the nation's most prominent election law attorneys. A former state legislator, she has helped lead the coalition behind the SAVE America Act and works to ensure that only eligible American citizens vote in American elections.
Key topics covered:
- Why the SAVE America Act is stalled in the Senate and what the 60-vote threshold really means
- The new strategy: breaking the bill into pieces and attaching them to House legislation
- The unelected Senate parliamentarian and the Byrd Rule blocking action
- How the Byrd Rule even tripped up Border Patrol and ICE funding through reconciliation
- The President's pledge not to sign bills that leave out the SAVE America Act
- The coordinated effort aimed at Senator Mike Lee and why grassroots should ignore it
- Pressuring holdout senators in Alaska and Maine to negotiate to a yes
- Why Jenny Beth Martin says the Senate is facing a constitutional crisis
- The exact call to action: how citizens can move the House this week
Episode breakdown:
00:14 — Welcome to the Jenny Beth Show
00:40 — Why the SAVE America Act is stalled in the Senate
01:06 — “The Senate is like concrete”: the 60-vote problem
02:06 — The new plan: break the bill into pieces and attach it to House bills
03:01 — The President's pledge and why the House is the only hope
04:25 — The unelected parliamentarian with more power than anyone in Washington
04:46 — Reconciliation blocked: the parliamentarian objects to ICE and Border Patrol funding
05:49 — The Byrd Rule explained
08:42 — A “snowball chance” under the Byrd Rule, and attaching the bill to FISA or housing
10:33 — Combining photo voter ID and citizenship confirmation; Speaker Johnson is committed
13:13 — Call your congressman: 202-224-3121
14:14 — Credit to Speaker Johnson, Chip Roy, and Senator Mike Lee
15:20 — The paid influencer operation aimed at Senator Mike Lee
16:18 — Why you cannot remove the Senate Majority Leader right now
17:40 — Removing a Senate leader is not like removing a House Speaker
18:39 — Pressuring the senators who voted no: Murkowski and Collins
20:10 — “Legislating has become an atrophied muscle in the Senate”
21:29 — The filibuster question
22:39 — Why the talking filibuster no longer works
23:41 — A 1986 ruling and a constitutional crisis in the Senate
24:20 — Speaker Johnson's thin majority vs. the Senate's gridlock
26:21 — The call to action and where to take it
27:30 — How to follow Cleta Mitchell and the Election Integrity Network
28:22 — Closing thoughts
Links and resources:
teapartypatriots.org
jennybethshow.com
passthesaveamericaact.com
Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121
Election Integrity Network: electionintegritynetwork.org
SAVE America Act Coalition: saveamericaactcoalition.com