Limit Voting News Today

president trump gave no order to deploy the national guard that day and he made no effort to work with the department of justice to coordinate and deploy law enforcement assets. >> now, the committee heard from capitol police officer caroline edwards who was injured during the insurrection. they also played a video of mostly never before seen footage showing some of the most violent scenes on the day. >> we need back-up! [ bleep ]. >> we are going to give prior warning. >> declaring it...

Federal law for elections. there are very different laws in 50 different states, plus the district of columbia. so in all these districts, were seeing efforts made to undermine voting, limit voting to allow state legislators to cancel votes. what the committee hearings might do, and probably the most positive contribution would be to take the lie and expose it even further. donald trump knew he was lying, and todays hearing demonstrated that beyond question. and he used that lie to try to motiva...

The nullify cations. >> i completely agree. weve talked about this offline. the most insidious thing about all these losses theyre handing to legislatures and politicians, the right to overrule results of it is the thing donald trump wanted and couldnt get in 2020 that saved us from that election being overturned. i think people need to focus on the most important thing. obviously the abridgements or things that limit voting is egregious. i have a lot of confidence in the american people to figh...

People, individual people, can hold their leaders accountable. the vote is their only way. they can call. they can write. but really, fundamentally, the only way leaders of this country are held accountable is through the vote. and the biggest concern, i have, in all of these bills getting passed. yes, the restrictions on voter rights are awful. is the potential for nullifications of elections. >> absolutely. >> thats the biggest concern ive had. the -- the invitation -- process and nullificatio...

Justice departments civil defense unit to try to bolster protections as they move forward and key actions, saying they want to evaluate the recently passed laws that limit voting access to see if they violate existing protections as well as analyzing state laws across the country to see if they discriminate against minority voters. he spoke to this yesterday during that announcement, the reasons behind wanting to take these measures. take a listen to what he said. >> there are many things that a...

Enacted 22 new law that is limit voting, all of the bills fueled by the lie that the election was stolen by donald trump and they want bipart sandal defense again the detierary of democracy. here is part of their statement -- elected leaders have had numerous opportunities to repudiate trump and his stop the steal shah laid. we urge members of congress to do whatever is necessary, including suspending the filibuster. joining me now, mondair jones. youre leading a group of new york democrats to t...