Ron DeSantis Wants Special Police Force For Elections, Which Sounds Perfectly Fine, Sure
Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis said in his "state of the state" speech last week that Florida needs an entirely new police agency to combat election crimes, even though Florida doesn't have any election fraud to speak of. Nonetheless, DeSantis requested that the state legislature spend roughly $6 million to set up a brand new "Office of Election Crimes and Security" and hire 52 people to staff it, so they can "investigate, detect, apprehend, and arrest anyone for an alleged violation" of Florida election laws. The Vote Cops would be stationed at as-yet unspecified "field offices throughout the state," so they could roll into action when they get tips from "government officials or any other person."
As of yet, no word on whether the Electoral SWAT Team will be equipped for high-speed pursuit or allowed to shoot to kill. (Haha, we are joking. It's Florida, so who knows!)
The Washington Post reports that so far at least, Florida Republicans have "reacted tepidly" to the proposal, so that's nice. Then again, all it would take for the idea to really have massive popular support would be for Donald Trump to mention it on Fox News.
Again, Florida doesn't have any serious issues with voter fraud, except perhaps for those three retired folks from the Villages, all Republicans, who were charged in December with voting in both Florida and by absentee ballot in other states in 2020. If the state had dedicated $2 million and 17 election cops to each of those miscreants, they might have been caught earlier.
We have no doubt that if the agency actually comes into being, plenty of wingnuts will have it on speed dial so they can report suspicious election activities, like maybe seeing two or more Black people getting out of a single car at polling stations in Miami. It should make the livestreamed ballot counting after elections a lot more lively, too. "I just saw a woman open a box. I don't know where that box came from! Probably China!"
DeSantis certainly framed the need as dire, explaining that
"To ensure that elections are conducted in accordance with the rule of law, I propose an election integrity unit whose sole focus will be the enforcement of Florida's election laws," he said during his State of the State address. "This will facilitate the faithful enforcement of election laws and will provide Floridians with the confidence that their vote will matter."
The Post, ever dismissive of the virtually nonexistent threat of voter fraud, snottily points out that DeSantis himself had nothing but praise in November 2020 for Florida's election, which he called "the gold standard."
"The way Florida did it, I think, inspired confidence," DeSantis said on Nov. 4, 2020, hours after the results showed that President Donald Trump had won the state by more than three percentage points. "I think that's how elections should be run."
As the Post also points out, the 2020 election in Florida really was, unlike lots of Florida elections, run smoothly and generally free of trouble. But that was before Donald Trump made it official Republican policy that he had won the election and the vote was massively rigged everywhere. Clearly even DeSantis's confidence in his state's excellent election was but an illusion.
As for all that fraud out there, the Post notes that, out of about 11 million votes cast in Florida in 2020, Florida's Department of State received just 262 complaint forms alleging possible election fraud, out of which it referred 75 to law enforcement or to prosecutors. If allegations of fraud continue at that rate, each employee of the new agency (assuming a bunch of supervisors) would only have to field maybe two cases a year. Or every two years, we suppose.
So far, at least, the Post reports that Florida GOP lawmakers haven't exactly been scrambling to turn DeSantis's idea into legislation. Nobody has yet filed a bill to create the agency, and the most that House Speaker Chris Sprowls (R) has committed to is that "We're going to look at it, we'll evaluate it and see what happens."
Even so, Democrats and voting rights advocates worry that the very existence of an electoral police agency would cause some people to fear voting, not to mention the potential actions the RepubliCops might take come election time.
"Broward County Supervisor of Elections Joe Scott said he's concerned that the new unit would be "applied in a very partisan way" and certain that his heavily Democratic county would be a target.
"It seems as if this is going to focus on a lot of grass-roots organizations that are out there trying to get people registered to vote, as well as people out there doing petition drives," Scott said. "I think this is going to lead to people being intimidated if they're civically involved. I don't want people to be scared away from doing those kinds of things."
If the idea does catch on, get ready for lots of sanctimonious Goopers to ask what Democratic officials and voters are so afraid of it they're doing nothing wrong. Freedom is only threatened by efforts to control a deadly pandemic, not by cops watching people vote.
DeSantis and the Republican-dominated legislature followed up the clean and fair 2020 election by making sure it would be harder for the wrong people to vote, passing a new election law last year to fix all the problems there hadn't been in 2020. It restricted the availability of absentee ballot drop boxes, requiring they be available only inside elections offices during early voting. It also toughened ID requirements for requesting mail-in ballots, and prohibited anyone but family members from turning in absentee ballots — again, not that there had been any problems with absentee voting. The new law is being challenged in court, with a trial set to start at the end of this month.
Nobody could actually point to any cheating the new restrictions would prevent, but Republican state Rep. Blaise Ingoglia said at the time he was sure there was a lot of frauding that nobody saw, explaining that "[j]ust the fact that they weren't caught doesn't necessarily mean that it's not happening."
That seems like an excellent justification for spending millions on election cops, too, and if they don't find more than the few scattered cases of people voting illegally that show up every election, then clearly that'll mean the election police need to be greatly expanded.
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The Federalist Knows Who's Just Like MLK, And It Is Trump And The Insurrectionists
Yesterday was Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, and we all know what that means: Republicans completely misrepresenting everything the man ever did and said in a desperate attempt to align themselves with him and, by extension, goodness in general.
Traditionally this is done via the repetition of the one and only thing he was ever known to say about racism, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." In Republicans' practice, this usually is taken to refer to white people's character, vis-à-vis the ways in which they benefit from white privilege. They used to do it by trying to claim he was a Republican, but it seems like they've given up on that in recent years.
This year, The Federalist has taken a new tack. Tristan Justice — the notably ridiculous Federalist writer we last encountered when he was cursing Victoria's Secret for ditching the "Angels" in favor of women of varying body types — started out with a reasonable request: This MLK Day, Remember How The FBI Targeted Him. Justice even said some actually true things about Dr. King and the fact that the FBI and the NSA did horrible things to him. Also pretty much every other government agency out there, and many others not affiliated with any government agency.
In fact, I almost had hope we were going to get through a whole Federalist article full of actual facts and reasonable statements. It seemed like it was just going to read like your average high school history paper based off of a Wikipedia article.
Alas, it was not to be.
The story of the FBI being weaponized to routinely investigate political opponents with virtually no accountability is continuing to replay itself decades later.
After agency operatives orchestrated a years-long witch hunt to undermine former President Donald Trump as a puppet of Russia, the FBI is now being used to target political dissidents to the Biden regime.
On Tuesday, FBI officials revealed to Senate lawmakers that the bureau is creating a new "Domestic Terror Unit," inspired by the riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6 last year. The same officials in the same hearing repeatedly refused to disclose how many agency informants were involved in the violence hysterically branded by Democrats as an "insurrection." Agency officials also refused to offer details on its military-style raids conducted on Jan. 6 defendants.
Meanwhile, officials have colluded with the House Democrats' Select Committee on Jan. 6 to bar genuine oversight of the executive agency or probe security failures amid the Capitol unrest.
So the theory here, to be clear, is as follows:
1. The FBI investigated Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
2. The FBI also investigated Donald Trump and the January 6 insurrectionists.
3. Therefore, Donald Trump and the insurrectionists are just like Martin Luther King and also this is the FBI doing the exact same thing it was doing in the 1950s and 60s to left-wing activists.
This would be a logical conclusion to make if these were the only three things ever investigated by the FBI. Alas, they are not. Using similar logic, I could say Trump kidnapped the Lindbergh baby or was D.B. Cooper or the Unabomber. And he's certainly not smart enough to have been the Unabomber. But the FBI investigated all of them, so they must all be the same!
I am hardly the world's biggest fan of the feebs, but even I don't think I'd go so far as to say "The FBI has investigated people who are good, therefore everyone the FBI investigates is good."
Additionally, COINTELPRO (J. Edgar Hoover's program meant to undermine King, Malcolm X, the Black Panthers, other civil rights activists, anti-war protesters, environmentalist groups, Native American groups, women's rights activists, socialist groups, and others) also sought to undermine the Ku Klux Klan. That doesn't make "the Klan" the same as Martin Luther King either. That is not how anything works.
It also seems pertinent to note that Dr. King's March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom did not make it to the inside of the Capitol building. I think we can safely say that if it had, we never would have heard from any of the people who breached the door ever again.
If conservatives want to align themselves with goodness, if they'd like to align themselves with anti-racism, hell, if they'd like to align themselves with anyone other than Lester Maddox and J. Edgar Hoover, then I highly recommend they start trying to be good people who do good things now, rather than desperately trying to compare themselves to people who did good things in the past.
[The Federalist]
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Marsha Blackburn: WHAR FOOD IN GROCERY STORE?
GOP Senator Marsha Blackburn, who's about as smart as a bag of hair, turned up on Maria Bartiromo's show Sunday to count all the ways President Joe Biden sucks. She claimed he's already become a lame duck, pummeled mercilessly by the Supreme Court, the Republican Party and its interns, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema. If that's true, Republicans should just chill on a beach somewhere and let Biden continue walking into rakes until the midterms. However, Blackburn also believes all good Americans must ACT NOW to stop Biden's feckless reign of terror.
We should note that during the leadup to the 2018 midterms, Democrats focused specifically on how effectively awful Donald Trump's first year in office was. That seemed like a more consistent message, but Republicans are obsessed with painting Biden as Jimmy Carter 2.0.
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Blackburn spread some vile lies about Democrats' proposed voting rights legislation and took some time to thank the Senate's most useless Democrat, Kyrsten Sinema, for keeping the bills from passing. Blackburn didn't condemn Sinema for supposedly backing the very bills she thinks are an unconstitutional power-grab. She knows Sinema's support of the filibuster kills voting rights regardless.
Bartiromo and Blackburn later entertained the absurd notion that the MAGA death cult would welcome Sinema. Blackburn claimed she's always grateful for "common sense Democrats." However, she does have enough pride in her craft to believe Republicans shouldn't let Sinema and Joe Manchin fuck up Biden's agenda all by themselves.
BLACKBURN: We as Republicans can't depend on Manchin and Sinema to do our jobs. We need to be out there communicating our message.
Wait, hold up, Republicans have a message? They didn't have a platform in 2020 besides "Hail Trump," essentially.
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Blackburn said Americans are fed up with partisan antics. That's probably true, but it's also all Republicans have to offer. They have no solutions to legitimate problems. Blackburn is the same asshole who smeared Biden's plans for universal pre-K as Soviet-style communism.
The senator from Tennessee painted a picture of Biden's America that was just as dire as the Soviet Union's grim final days.
BLACKBURN: [Americans] want things that are going to make their lives better.
Yeah, like universal pre-K, you hack.
BLACKBURN: They're going to the grocery store. There's no food. I went there Friday night. No lettuce, no celery, no berries, no avocados, at my grocery store. People want this solved.
That's an oddly specific list. Maybe Blackburn was making some fucked-up version of guacamole.
A winter storm hit both Washington, DC, and Tennessee this weekend. Southerners always lose their damn minds when it snows more than an inch and will immediately pick the grocery store shelves clean as if preparing for Armageddon. However, Biden isn't solely responsible for the legitimate supply chain issues grocers are facing. The Omicron variant, which the GOP is helping spread, and severe weather from climate change, which the GOP ignores, have played a significant role. California wildfires aren't great for those avocados Blackburn enjoys.
Tennessee GOP Governor Bill Lee has banned mask mandates, despite the Omicron surge, and just 59 percent of Tennesseans are vaccinated. People are too sick to work, senator. That's why you don't have your goddamn avocados.
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Remembering The Dr. King Conservatives Find So Damn Inconvenient
If Republicans were capable of shame and intellectual consistency, Martin Luther King Day would prove uncomfortable for them. After all, they insist America's founding was not rooted in white supremacy, and that the nation itself was never actively, aggressively racist. If that's true, why do we need to celebrate Dr. King as a transformative figure?
Conservatives' favorite MLK quote — possibly the only one they know — is "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." The key words here that conservatives ignore is one day, meaning it hadn't happened yet. If America was already a post-racial utopia, Dr. King would've just been a guy who gave speeches. We might as well have a national holiday for the Four Tops.
as far as i can tell republicans believe that King emerged out of the ether to say this one line in august 1963 and then disappeared thereafter, never to speak againhttps://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1482724426030489601\u00a0\u2026
— b-boy bouiebaisse (@b-boy bouiebaisse) 1642364876
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But let's not waste time today dragging hypocritical statements from Republicans who'll take a break from suppressing the Black vote to claim that if Dr. King were alive today, he'd resent almost everyone who's Black and presumably host one of the Fox News prime time hours.
Instead, let's appreciate Dr. King's own words, which are more prescient than ever.
During a July 1963 interview, Dr. King was asked about President John F. Kennedy's proposed civil rights legislation that would end racial segregation in public accommodations and strengthen voting rights. Dr. King believed the majority of Americans supported the effort, but that damn filibuster would obstruct the will of the people and deny racial minorities their constitutional rights.
DR. KING: I think the tragedy is that we have a Congress with a Senate that has a minority of misguided senators who will use the filibuster to keep the majority of people from even voting. They won't let the majority senators vote. And certainly they wouldn't want the majority of people to vote, because they know they do not represent the majority of the American people. In fact, they represent, in their own states, a very small minority.
Joe Manchin likes to invoke his idol, Robert Byrd, but the former senator from West Virginia actively filibustered the Civil Rights Act. Cloture was eventually reached (with an even higher threshold of two-thirds of the Senate), but Byrd and other opponents of the bill weren't trying to make it better through vigorous discussion about whether Black Americans were people. They wanted to kill the bill and preserve injustice for another generation.
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Dr. King didn't retreat into a well-earned retirement once the Civil Rights Act was passed. He knew there was still much work to do. During his 1967 "Where Do We Go From Here?" speech, he addressed America's vast (and intentional) racial inequality, which had not vanished with the Civil Rights Act.
DR: KING: When the Constitution was written, a strange formula to determine taxes and representation declared that the Negro was sixty percent of a person. Today another curious formula seems to declare he is fifty percent of a person. Of the good things in life, the Negro has approximately one half those of whites. Of the bad things of life, he has twice those of whites. Thus, half of all Negroes live in substandard housing. And Negroes have half the income of whites. When we turn to the negative experiences of life, the Negro has a double share: There are twice as many unemployed; the rate of infant mortality among Negroes is double that of whites; and there are twice as many Negroes dying in Vietnam as whites in proportion to their size in the population.
Dr. King actively opposed America's own warmongering nature. He spoke out against the Vietnam War, because his belief in nonviolence extended beyond Southern segregationists. Everyone's humanity mattered, including whoever the American government considered its enemy at the moment. Dr. King wouldn't have been down with drones or conservatives who valorize gun ownership.
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While the white conservatives at the National Review blamed Black people fully for their woes, Dr. King didn't hesitate to place the blame where it truly belonged. In his 1964 book Why We Can't Wait, he wrote, "No amount of gold could provide an adequate compensation for the exploitation and humiliation of the Negro in America down through the centuries. Not all the wealth of this affluent society could meet the bill. Yet a price can be placed on unpaid wages. [...] The payment should be in the form of a massive program by the government of special, compensatory measures which could be regarded as a settlement in accordance with the accepted practice of common law."
Across the country, we are seeing white backlash to inconvenient history. Conservatives will use a sanitized version of Dr. King to smear today's Black leaders. Today and tomorrow, let's remind America of the true Martin Luther King Jr.
OPEN THREAD.
Jan. 6 Committee Passes Out Subpoenas, Collects Court Wins, Kicks Ass
Haha, get her, Jade!
The January 6 Select Committee has been a bunch of busy bees this week!
On Tuesday it issued subpoenas to Trumpland lawyers Rudy Giuliani, Jenna Ellis, and Sidney Powell to discuss their role in the lead-up to the Capitol riot. Although the three were nominally acting as lawyers during the whole sordid affair, their loose lips may go some way to eroding whatever privilege claims they might have made. For instance, the Committee letters to Giuliani and Powell refer to reporting by Axios that they "urged President Trump to direct the seizure of voting machines around the country after being told that the Department of Homeland Security had no lawful authority to do so." Powell wasn't the president's lawyer, and, even if undertaken at the president's behest, Giuliani's conversation with acting DHS head Ken Cuccinelli is probably not covered by privilege either.
The Committee also subpoenaed Trumpland sycophant Boris Epshteyn, who was hanging out at the Willard Hotel with that hive of vipers and is "reported to have participated in a call with former President Trump on the morning of January 6, during which options were discussed to delay the certification of election results in light of Vice President Mike Pence's unwillingness to deny or delay certification."
Epshteyn tweeted that "It is no surprise whatsoever that the illegitimate January 6 Unselect Committee would attempt to subpoena attorneys as it continues its Stalinist witch hunt against President Trump and his supporters. The information I am happy to share with Democrats, RINOs and anyone else is that of the overwhelming fraud that permeated the 2020 election in Arizona, Wisconsin, Georgia, Pennsylvania and beyond."
Powell has reportedly agreed to appear. Rudy is off leaking hair dye God only knows where. And our girl Jenna, who blasted her dumbass memos about stealing the Electoral College around DC, says "The committee is just mad they can't date me."
What. Ever.
On Wednesday, the Committee issued subpoenas to white nationalist shitlords Nick Fuentes and Patrick Casey. Fuentes, a notorious Holocaust denier associated with the "Groypers" (those little frog meme weenuses who think they're totally edgy because they pretend to hate the GOP for being insufficiently racist), was so toxic that associating with him got Michelle Malkin fired by her speakers bureau. But that hasn't stopped GOP Rep. Paul Gosar, a major proponent of the Big Lie, from palling around with Fuentes.
Fuentes and Casey hyped the rally, and Fuentes urged his supporters to storm the Capitol, although he himself did not get his hands dirty by going in. In its letters to the Boy Blunders, the Committee referred to reporting that they'd each received large transfers of Bitcoin from a French programmer — $250,000 for Fuentes, and $25,000 for Casey.
Finally, on Wednesday evening, the Supreme Court tossed Trump's idiotic attempt to block the National Archives from handing over documents to the Committee. Justice Clarence Thomas, whose wife Ginni Thomas supported the Big Lie, is the only member of the Court who would have granted Trump the injunction. There's some disagreement about the brief order, which is a nice way of saying really smart people like George Conway and Just Security editor Ryan Goodman think it's a major smackdown, and I think it's a gift to Mark Meadows.
Without getting too deeply into the weeds (you can read my thread on this), Conway and Goodman are treating this as an explicit affirmation of the Circuit Court's finding that the sitting president's waiver of privilege outweighs the ex-president's invocation of it.
"Supreme Court ruling against Trump on executive privilege," Goodman tweeted. "Puts #MarkMeadows (and Bannon) in extra legal jeopardy. Their defense against contempt of Congress based in part on executive privilege claim. (They may want to comply now saying were waiting for litigation resolution)."
Except the denial went out of its way that to emphasize it wasn't based on privilege at all, but rather the fact that Trump himself had set out a legal standard to invoke privilege, and then failed to meet it.
"Because the Court of Appeals concluded that President Trump's claims would have failed even if he were the incumbent, his status as a former President necessarily made no difference to the court's decision," they wrote, adding that there was no "'need [to] conclusively resolve whether and to what extent a court,' at a former President's behest, may 'second guess the sitting President's' decision to release privileged documents."
In fact, they went even further, tossing out all the language from the appellate court's ruling that relates to privilege: "Any discussion of the Court of Appeals concerning President Trump's status as a former President must therefore be regarded as nonbinding dicta."
That looks to me like they got rid of the parts of the holding that said Biden's refusal to invoke privilege outweighs Trump's invocation of it, which would leave Mark Meadows and the rest of the goons defying Committee subpoenas free to argue their executive privilege claims in court. But Conway says the Court was deliberately leaving the question open in case future ex-presidents need to assert privilege after leaving office.
Put simply, Trump's own argument, by highlighting the danger of a future Trump, made the result even worse for Trump.
— George Conway (@George Conway) 1642650825
An extremely optimistic view, considering the makeup of this court. Guess we'll find out soon who is right.
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GOP Blocked Voting Rights Again, And Joe Manchin And Kyrsten Sinema Helped!
This sucks AND blows.
Just as expected, Senate Republicans last night blocked passage of the big voting rights bill put forward by Democrats. Then, also just as expected, Democrats were unable to get all 50 members of their own caucus to support a rules change that would have moved the bill to a final vote, because of previously-announced opposition to filibuster reform by Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema.
Nothing about the votes was surprising, but it still stings, and it's unclear what steps to protect voting rights President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats may be able to take before this fall's midterm elections. You'd think they'd activate the mind control microchips in all the COVID vaccines to ensure Democrats keep the House and Senate, but hell, they didn't even do that to get Manchin and Sinema to modify the filibuster.
The Senate voted down a motion to end debate on the bill, which combined the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, by a vote of 51 to 49. Under the Senate's weird rules, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer changed his vote to a "no" so the bill could potentially be brought back later.
Then Schumer introduced a measure to tweak Senate rules to implement a "talking filibuster" for the voting rights bill only. The proposal, NBC News explains, would have forced
GOP senators to actively speak on the Senate floor to block the legislation rather than withhold their support in a vote. If all senators used up their speeches – each would be allowed up to two speeches, with no time limit – the chamber could pass the proposals with a simple majority.
But as we say, that was a no-go for Manchin and Sinema, who both voted for the voting rights package earlier but were unwilling to modify Senate rules to make its actual passage a possibility.
Prior to the votes, Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar gave a fiery speech in support of the voting rights reforms, which would set national minimum voting standards and prevent states from giving Republican candidates an advantage. Here, give it a look!
Klobuchar condemned Republican efforts to change state voting laws, not simply because they directly impede the ability to vote, but also because the constant changing of election laws would in itself create confusion in the electorate and lead voters to just say the hell with it. She also noted that no other industrial democracy has anything like the filibuster, and that the state laws restricting voting all passed by simple majority.
Citing Rep. Jim Clyburn, the House Majority Whip, Klobuchar also reminded Democrats that the pursuit of bipartisanship for its own sake is a lousy reason to not pass voting rights legislation. Clyburn likes to point out that the 15th Amendment, which gave formerly enslaved Americans the right to vote (if they were men), was passed only by one party, and that nobody today considers that a strike against it.
Klobuchar systematically dismantled most of the arguments against changing the filibuster, and pointed out that Senate rules have changed again and again, including over 100 times that the Senate has agreed to rules changes to pass bills with only a simple majority vote. So for crying out loud, how about actually listening to Americans, who want voting rights protected?
KLOBUCHAR: The people of this country will not tolerate silencing. I think by voting this down, by not allowing us even to debate this, to get to the conclusion of a vote, that is silencing the people of America, all in the name of an archaic Senate rule that isn't even in the Constitution. That's just wrong.
It was a pretty good speech, for all the good it did.
The failure of the bill in the Senate doesn't mean an end to efforts to pass voting rights legislation. Rep. Clyburn told CNN yesterday that even if the effort to pass the bill in the Senate failed, "we ain't giving up. I am too young to give up."
Mr. Clyburn is 81, he's righteously pissed off, and he has exactly the attitude that we'll all need to keep voting rights safe.
Back to work.
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LIVE: Civil Rights Leaders Tell Congress About Voter Suppression, In Case They Hadn't Heard
We'd ask Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin if they're listening, but it doesn't matter anymore.
The House Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties is hosting civil rights leaders this morning to discuss voter suppression. It's even more important after what Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema helped their Republican friends do to American democracy last night.
Here, watch a hearing:
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