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Lincoln Project senior advisor Stuart Stevens told MSNBC host Joy Reid Wednesday night that if the Democrats’ election reform bills are not passed, Republicans could commit a terrorist attack similar to 9/11.
“If we don’t do this, then what happens?” Reid asked Stevens, referring to the passage of the For The People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. The Lincoln Project senior advisor compared the reaction to the 9/11 terrorist attack and said that it was impossible to predict what could happen.
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
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There s a lot of performance going on in Democratic circles on the issue of voting rights. Texas Democrats fled their state to stop a voting bill written by majority Republicans that everyone knows will pass in the end.
At the same time, national Democratic leaders from President Joe Biden down are employing extreme rhetoric in support of a voting bill, the For the People Act, that everyone knows will
not pass in the end.
The For the People Act, known as S. 1 in the Senate, is widely considered a messaging bill. It is a wish list of measures that please the party s liberal wing and send an aspirational message but does not have any chance of actually becoming law.
It is outrageously funny that Texas Dems grabbed their Miller Lite and flew private to DC, sang “we shall overcome” at the Capitol, and the bill passed anyway because they didn’t count, Ben Williamson tweeted. The Bill still has to pass the House however.
The Texas House voted Tuesday to send for and arrest if necessary Texas Legislators who split town in private planes to go to Washington to demand that Congress pass the For The People Act. Their intent is to block the passage of a GOP priority elections bill authorizing the use of arrest warrants if needed to compel attendance, Statesman.com reported.
But his threat illustrated the heated rhetoric around the issue of the laws being passed around the country, taking such actions as strengthening requirements for voter ID.
Democrats on the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution pressed the highly charged attack that the state laws are racist and aimed to keep Black people from voting. They vowed to block them.
“We cannot let these attacks on democracy stand,” Mr. Blumenthal said.
Democrats are pushing for an update to the federal civil-rights voting law that would undo the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in a 2013 case, Shelby County v. Holder. The ruling effectively took away a provision in the Voting Rights Act requiring states with a history of discrimination to get approval from the Justice Department to change elections laws or policies.