Posted on 01/12/2022 12:00:31 PM PST by Jacquerie
“Failure is not an option for the democracy of America,” the New York Democrat said at a Tuesday press conference with other Senate Democrats. “We’re running out of time.”
Schumer has repeatedly vowed in recent days to pass voting rights legislation, and if it is blocked by Republicans as expected, to consider a change in the Senate’s current filibuster rules. The evenly divided Senate requires 60 votes for legislation to advance, and Democrats have talked about a carve-out for voting rights, a talking filibuster or some other kind of revision short of entirely killing the filibuster.
But Schumer also faced growing public opposition from Senate Republicans, who on Tuesday also held a press conference objecting to changes in the filibuster. Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri disagreed with Democrats’ concerns about state legislatures passing restrictive voting laws.
Schumer said the Senate will vote at the latest by Martin Luther King Jr. Day, which is Monday.
The John Lewis bill, named in honor of the Georgia lawmaker and civil rights icon, would bolster the Voting Rights Act by establishing a new formula to require all 50 states to get special permission from the Justice Department before making any changes to voting laws or putting in place new voting requirements. One Republican, Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, has said she would support Democrats in passing the John Lewis Act.
The Freedom to Vote Act is a compromise brokered by Senate Rules Committee Chairwoman Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Manchin. The bill would establish Election Day as a national holiday and set minimum standards that each state must have for elections, such as two weeks of early voting and an option for same-day voter registration.
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Meaning twenty-something DOJ lawyers just out of a Marxist law school decide the voting laws in your state.
“We must be allowed to cheat, it’s the only way Democrats can win”
Look in the mirror, Chucky.
Yeah...that’s you; the very definition of a reprobate failure.
When someone wants to change the rule of elections, it usually means that they are scared of losing the next one and are trying to cheat the system.
“Voting rights!”
Drink!
“Right to Cheat” is more like it...........................
As the mid terms approach, these guys are beginning to full-on panic.
START THE STEAL!!!!
I prefer America returns to a Constitutional Republic.
“Death to America,” Schumer added.
If States start making laws that make Organized Vote Fraud or Organized Election Fraud a DEATH PENALTY OFFENSE, they will drop this overnight.
No we're not Chuck. Don't unilaterally nuke the Senate Chuck.
Every sensible person in America.
How many US Citizens have been stopped from voting in the last 30 years? None. Shameless attempt to create fixed elections.
Chuckle Schumer 2019 - “the filibuster is a hallmark of the US Constitution and this senate and is necessary for Democracy.”
Chuckle Schumer 2022 - “the filibuster is dangerous to the US Constitution and this senate and its removal is necessary for Democracy.”
The Senators are all giving speeches against this quoting Schumer.
How many nightly news shows will show any of these speeches?
“We really, really, really want to start a shooting war.”
Schumer
Killing the filibuster and pushing this “voting” rights bill through has the potential to destabilize the country. This would almost ensure a dominant China for the rest of our lives.
With this crap, I don’t even know why we have elections.
They should lock Schumer in an insane institution.
Even Dems think he is full of it.
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