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Membalas post hansip.ka5kus • 14-07-2021 06:10

Private planes carrying more than 50 Democrats left Austin for Washington DC on Monday, skipping town just days before the Texas house of representatives was expected to give early approval to sweeping new voting restrictions in a special legislative session.

Membalas post hansip.ka5kus • 14-07-2021 06:10

Texas’s Republican governor, Greg Abbott, has vowed to arrest Democrat lawmakers who have fled the state in an attempt to stop an overhaul of election laws that they say damages the right to vote, especially for communities of color.

Membalas post hansip.ka5kus • 14-07-2021 06:10

Governor vows to arrest Democrats who fled Texas to block voting restrictions

Membalas post hansip.ka5kus • 14-07-2021 06:10

“He passes the buck to some new coalition? He talks about this as a campaign issue in 2022? We have weeks to pass For The People Act – we need the president committing the full force of the White House to getting it passed.”

Membalas post hansip.ka5kus • 14-07-2021 06:09

“Given he understands the problem and solution, you’d think he would then describe what the White House is doing to pass that essential legislation,” he said in a text to the Guardian. “But no. He doesn’t even mention the filibuster.

Membalas post hansip.ka5kus • 14-07-2021 06:09

Ezra Levin, the co-founder of the progressive grassroots group Indivisible, who is among the most vocal critics of Biden on voting rights, also said he was disappointed.

Membalas post hansip.ka5kus • 14-07-2021 06:09

“As the president ramps up his use of the bully pulpit and engages with senators,” she said, “we urge him to make clear that the Senate minority’s use of the filibuster – a Jim Crow relic, in the words of former President Obama – must never stand in the way of the freedom to vote.”

Membalas post hansip.ka5kus • 14-07-2021 06:09

Karen Hobert Flynn, president of Common Cause, a good-government group, urged Biden to address the filibuster.

Membalas post hansip.ka5kus • 14-07-2021 06:08

“He must do even more and use the full weight of his office to protect the freedom to vote and stop the onslaught of un-American, anti-voter scams being pushed across the country.”

Membalas post hansip.ka5kus • 14-07-2021 06:08

“We welcome President Biden’s commitments today and applaud the steps he has taken thus far,” said Wade Henderson, interim president and chief executive of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.

Membalas post hansip.ka5kus • 14-07-2021 06:08

Civil rights groups gave Biden’s speech a lukewarm reception, saying it was encouraging to see him denounce attacks on voting rights but that he needed to do more.

Membalas post hansip.ka5kus • 14-07-2021 06:08

There is a rapidly closing window to pass the For the People Act, a voting rights bill that would limit excessive partisan gerrymandering and require automatic and same-day voter registration, among other measures.

Membalas post hansip.ka5kus • 14-07-2021 06:07

“We’ll engage in an all-out effort to educate voters about the changing laws, register them to vote, and then get the vote out … We’ll be asking my Republican friends in Congress and states and cities and counties to stand up, for God’s sake, and help prevent this concerted effort to un...

Membalas post hansip.ka5kus • 14-07-2021 06:07

“It doesn’t have to be this way,” Biden insisted. “We have the means, we just need the will. The will to save and strengthen our democracy.

Membalas post hansip.ka5kus • 14-07-2021 06:07

A majority of Republicans believe the 2020 election was won through voter fraud, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found in May.

Membalas post hansip.ka5kus • 14-07-2021 06:07

In Philadelphia, he made it clear he was not giving up on federal voting rights legislation. But he did not lay out a pathway. Even as he denounced “peddlers of lies” who he said were damaging democracy, he appeared to remain convinced Republicans could be persuaded to sign on to legislation.

Membalas post hansip.ka5kus • 14-07-2021 06:07

Democrats could get rid of the rule with a majority vote but a handful of senators have declined to embrace the idea, saying the filibuster helps preserve the input of the minority party. Biden, who was a senator from Delaware for more than 30 years, has not embraced getting rid of the rule.

Membalas post hansip.ka5kus • 14-07-2021 06:06

But the most significant part of the speech lay in what he did not say. Biden did not mention the filibuster, the Senate rule under which 60 votes are required to proceed on legislation.

Membalas post hansip.ka5kus • 14-07-2021 06:06

“There’s an unfolding assault taking place in America today, an attempt to suppress and subvert the right to vote,” he said.

Membalas post hansip.ka5kus • 14-07-2021 06:06

Coming after some activists questioned how seriously the White House was taking the issue, an impassioned speech in Philadelphia marked a clear escalation of the president’s defense of voting rights. Bluntly calling out lies about the 2020 election as “just that, a big lie”, Biden denounc...

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