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Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus is taken into custody Thursday by U.S. Capitol Police officers in the Hart Senate Office Building, after a demonstration supporting voting rights, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
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Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, center, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, and other activists lead a peaceful demonstration to advocate for voting rights, in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington.
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Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, and other activists lead a peaceful demonstration to advocate for voting rights, in the Hart Senate Office Building, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, July 15, 2021.
They’re marching through the lobby of Hart now. pic.twitter.com/Lf9Lehm1om Nicholas Wu (@nicholaswu12) July 15, 2021
A total of nine people, including Beatty, were later arrested for demonstrating in a prohibited area on Capitol grounds, said the Capitol Police. Protestors were reportedly warned three times to stop.
Rep. Joyce Beatty, Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, is arrested after participating in a small voting rights protest that culminated in a march around the Senate Hart Office Building Atrium. pic.twitter.com/PYcA1wllkk Morgan Rimmer (@morgan rimmer) July 15, 2021 Today, I stood in solidarity with Black women across the country in defense of our constitutional right to vote. We have come too far and fought too hard to see everything systematically dismantled and restricted by those who wish to silence our voice, said Beatty in a powerful statement. Be assured that this is just the beginning. This is our power, our message.
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Yet another person associated with the Lincoln Project has made a comparison between Republicans and 9/11, Stuart Stevens, a senior adviser for the anti-Trump group, made the comments during a Wednesday night segment on MSNBC s The ReidOut.
Lincoln Project senior adviser Stuart Stevens tells Joy Reid that, if the For the People Act (HR-1/S-1) and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act aren t passed and signed into law, Republicans will carry out a terrorist attack on par with September 11 pic.twitter.com/hSbgEavrpo Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 14, 2021
The Lincoln Project and their ilk are usually making comparisons between the Capitol Hill riot on January 6, which resulted in 5 deaths, and 9/11, which resulted in almost 3,000 American deaths. These comments came during a discussion of the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act:
By Michael LucianoJul 15th, 2021, 5:04 pm
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Joyce Beatty (D-OH) and eight others were arrested by Capitol Police on Thursday in the Hart Senate Office Building after refusing to leave. Per reporting from Politico’s
Nicholas Wu, Beatty and a group of dozens of Black women leaders from across the country marched to the building as part of a “Day of Action on Voting Rights.”
Beatty, the chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, and the activists linked arms and sang songs as they walked through the lobby of the Hart building. The group was calling on the Senate to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.
Published July 16. 2021 12:01AM
Robert Reich
Joe Biden has a good chance of getting America back to where it was before the pandemic. Covid-19 is in retreat. So far, almost half of the adult population has been fully vaccinated. The economy is roaring back still 7 million jobs short of where it was in January 2020 but on track to return to the starting gate by the end of the year. Biden s American Rescue Plan is a major success.
But it s not clear Biden will get America back to where it was before Donald Trump. Biden s initial slew of executive orders erased most of Trump s executive orders, but he hasn t yet demolished all of Trump s cruel immigration policies. Trump s xenophobic rhetoric is gone, but Biden hasn t repaired relations with China. Many of Trump s tariffs are still in place. And even with a bare Democratic majority in the U.S. Senate, there s little chance Congress will repeal all of Trump s tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy.