WASHINGTON − If you want to understand what might happen nationwide if President Donald Trump ‘s SAVE America Act goes into effect, ask lawyer Lauren Bonds, who fought − and defeated − a similar statewide law in Kansas nearly a decade ago. Bonds was part of a legal team that sued Kansas and its secretary of state, Kris Kobach, after they implemented a voter registration law that required proof of citizenship to register to vote, as Trump’s proposal would. A federal judge ruled that the state law was unconstitutional and violated federal election laws designed to protect people from being disenfranchised, or unfairly denied the ability to vote. By then, though, the damage had been done. At least 31,000 people were barred from registering to vote, according to the judge’s findings, including in a key statewide election in 2014 in which incumbent Republican Gov. Sam Brownback narrowly defeated Democrat Paul Davis. Trump’s second term saw aggressive immigration and trade moves, federal downsizing, and assertive foreign interventions in Venezuela and Iran . President Donald Trump has doubled down on an aggressive immigration agenda, emphasizing record-low levels of illegal border crossi
