@johnlundin Reportedly McConnell bragged he told Obama to his face he’d never get a SC nominee & followed through refusing to bring Obama ‘s SC nominee Garland up even for discussion as required by Constitution Senate duty to advise & consent (or not). Filibuster NOT even in Constitution.
@johnlundin McConnell saying he will obstruct is entirely disingenuous because that’s all he’s done holding 100s of dem bills on his desk not bringing up even for discussion relishing “grim reaper” nickname quite literal with bipartisan Covid relief on his desk bill May to Dec 2020 ...
@johnlundin ... while almost 60,000 a day were forced into poverty and lines at food banks stretched to miles. How many lives could have been saved if McConnell had brought up universal background checks approved of by 90% of Americans including a majority of republicans. McConnell ...
@johnlundin ... giving the truth in a speech that Trump incited Jan 6th Capitol interruption of Constitutionally mandated COUNTING ONLY of already certified states’ electors’ votes resulting in deaths but voting to acquit him on technicality he wasn’t sitting President at time McConnell ...
@johnlundin ... created technicality himself by refusing to call Senate into session when he could have (as he did days before 2020 election pushing through a Supreme Court judge) is obvious and criminal. Roberts 2013 gutting of 1965 Voting Rights Act as in taking out pre - clearance ...
@johnlundin ... provisions preventing habitual abusers of voting rights ( like Georgia requiring Blacks but not whites to recite entire Constitution) because abuse was “ameliorated” somehow. RGB dissented saying you don’t take down umbrella when it’s raining just because you’re dry. I’m ...
@johnlundin ... guessing RGB meant something like you don’t stop requiring smoke detectors because there have been less fires lately. Roberts removing adult supervision before allowing habitually abusing voter suppression states to go t far allowed GA to make giving water to a person ...
@johnlundin ... in lines sometimes 8hr long water. Everybody in line when polls close can vote but what if they haven’t had water for 8 hrs do they lose their place in line or their right to vote if they get out of line t get water? We shouldn’t even be talking about it - it would have ...
@johnlundin ... been clicked out n pre-clearance. As is GA making water giving a felony was much worse before it was presented in final form. Media reported GA voter suppressors took some bad parts out ( worse than making giving water a crime? ) because of activists resistance but I think...
@johnlundin ... I think they did it because even white supremacists have some respect for voting rights. That’s just my opinion but a fact is Roberts 2013 decision is not only water over the dam it took down the pre- clearance dam ( adult supervision don’t even think of presenting that ...
@johnlundin ... voter suppression law because it will just be ruled unconstitutional and we’re tired of telling you). But 2013 SC decision like “separate but equal” SC decision clearly allowing discrimination against minorities and many other things will stand as long as congress takes ...
@johnlundin ..l to overturn it which in “separate but equal” took more than a half century. 253 GOP bills passed or pending in many more than the original pre- clearance habitual abusing Southern voter suppression states called something else but as practical matter designed to suppress ...
@johnlundin ... minority voting non-coincidentally appear because GOP lost Presidential election and majority in Senate but also for another insidious reason - because of 2013 gutting of 1965 Voting Rights Act they CAN. Only Congress can insure one person one vote majority democratic rule...
@johnlundin ... if GOP succeeds with voter suppression with minority power amplified by power of filibuster in letting these 253 voting suppression efforts to go on we will have minority rule - autocracy - not democracy. THAT’s what’s at stake unless GOP wants to support voting rights ...
@johnlundin ... so everybody with the right to vote can vote and vote as ( reasonably )easily as other ( white ) persons qualified to vote.
But GOP doesn’t want go along the get along with one person one vote majority rule with everybody getting as equal chance to vote as reasonably ...
But GOP doesn’t want go along the get along with one person one vote majority rule with everybody getting as equal chance to vote as reasonably ...
@johnlundin ... easily and equally as every other person because ... GOP can’t win otherwise, former President said if everybody could vote ( he said by mail but he meant any legal way because there is zero evidence of voter fraud (/republicans would never win another election. Novel ...
@johnlundin ... run on the merits of your proposals. 2020 RNC did not bother having a platform - just what Trump wanted to do which unfortunately was more too much time spent on perpetual campaigning not enough on governing. Black vote literally saved democracy. If it takes nuking the ...
@johnlundin ...filibuster t preserve minority voting rights I say so be it.
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