1. United States
2. La.
3. Letter

I am not asking. I am demanding that you vote NO on the SAVE Act. This legislation constitutes a direct threat to constitutionally protected voting rights. The right to vote is safeguarded by the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause, the Fifteenth Amendment, the Nineteenth Amendment, and the Twenty-Fourth Amendment. Any law that imposes additional burdens on eligible citizens — particularly burdens that disproportionately impact women, low-income Americans, elderly voters, rural communities, and communities of color — raises immediate constitutional red flags. The Supreme Court has long affirmed that voting is a fundamental right. In Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections, the Court ruled that wealth or payment of a fee cannot determine access to the ballot. Requiring costly documentation such as passports or certified birth certificates as a prerequisite to vote creates a de facto financial barrier. In Reynolds v. Sims, the Court declared that the right to vote is “preservative of all rights.” Legislation that conditions that right on additional documentary hurdles — absent compelling and demonstrable evidence of widespread noncitizen voting — fails constitutional scrutiny. The SAVE Act does not strengthen democracy. It narrows it. It shifts the burden onto lawful citizens to prove eligibility through paperwork that many do not readily possess. That is not election integrity. That is voter suppression. Your oath of office was to the Constitution — not to party leadership, not to political narratives, and not to manufactured crises. I demand that you uphold your oath. I demand that you defend constitutional voting protections. I demand that you vote NO on the SAVE Act. Your constituents are watching, and history records these votes.