Posted on 03/04/2019 7:29:50 AM PST by simpson96
SELMA, Ala. — Speaking Sunday at the historic Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church, former Secretary of State, First Lady, and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton suggested a key Supreme Court decision may have cost her the White House.(snip)
“I was the first person who ran for president without the protection of the Voting Rights Act and I will tell you, it makes a really big difference,” Clinton said.
Clinton prefaced her comments by discussing the history of the Voting Rights Act, which was passed in 1965. The law required federal oversight of voting in nine southern states and an array of other jurisdictions that were found to have engaged in discriminatory practices. Clinton noted the law was reauthorized by Congress in 2006 while she was in the Senate.
“It was based on thousands and thousands of pages of testimony as to why we ... needed the Voting Rights Act. I thought it was a done deal, passed out of the Congress, signed by a Republican president, and then it found its way to the Supreme Court,” Clinton recounted.
Clinton said Republicans who wanted to “pull back rights” were behind the legal challenge that brought the 2013 Supreme Court decision, in which conservative justices struck down the core of the law.
“They found a receptive Supreme Court who came up with the most absurd decision,” said Clinton, adding, “They gutted the Voting Rights Act.”(snip)
“It doesn’t just make a difference in Alabama and Georgia. It made a difference in Wisconsin where the best studies that have been done said somewhere between 40,000 and 80,00” thousand people were turned away from the polls because of the color of their skin, because of their age, because of whatever excuse could be made up to stop a fellow American citizen from voting,” Clinton said.
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How come when Trump says millions of illegals voted, the media quickly calls it a lie, and when Clinton claims that 80,000 wisconsin voters were illegally denied the right to vote, not one media outlet asks for a piece of evidence, or points out how the statement is false.
BTW, when the act was overturned by the Supreme court (in 2013?), a newspaper asked the question, what does this mean for Wisconsin? The answer:
“But no jurisdictions in Wisconsin were covered by Section 4 anyway.
“The decision appears to (have) no consequences for Wisconsin,” says UW political science professor Barry Burden.”
So, when Clinton claims that the VRA ruling is what cost her Wisconsin, she is lying. And the news article quoting her could tell us that, if they spent 20 seconds googling the question I just googled.
She should promote voter ID so everyone who can legally vote can vote. I also see that her face had more surgery, I guess that explains why she was in hiding the past month or so and now we can expect her to run, LOL
The brothers won’t turn out for an icy white bit*h.
Ask Martha Coakley.
Did she go into her “Ah don’t feel noways tired, ah’ve come too far.....” demeaning drawl?
80,000 voters turned away from the polls in Wisconsin? Why didn’t they complain?
Perhaps they were all Trump voters?
Still angry and blaming anything but herself.
A true leader takes responsibility. This woman takes a pass.
Next, she’ll be blaming SUNSPOTS for her loss.
Hillary Clinton blames gutting of Voting Rights Act for her 2016 loss
I'm guessing Ed Rendell was suppose to tell the folks who do voter fraud for democrats how many votes were needed to stuff the ballot boxes - and that he got the number WRONG...
I love these sort of posts. They remind me of that night and the despair that I felt. I slept through all the News Returns BS and my son called me around 11 P.M. woke me up to tell me what happened.
Ultimately, the best election night ever, and I slept through the best parts. I was wide awake though from 11P to at least 5A.
Gosh that was glorious.
She can’t let go. Good.
Is she sticking with this excuse?
she has not tried the dog ate the votes- yet
“Gosh that was glorious.”
That it was!! Sorry to hear you slept through it. It was a beyond-exhilarating evening for sure.
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