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25 Jun, 9 tweets, 3 min read
SCOOP: Justice Department will announce at 11 it is suing Georgia over its new voter suppression law. This is first major action by Biden DOJ to combat GOP voting restrictions motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
Biden DOJ announcement that it is suing Georgia coming on 8th anniversary of Supreme Court decision gutting Voting Rights Act

Since Shelby County 26 states have enacted new voting restrictions, finds new analysis by @MotherJones bit.ly/3w1ONCg
AG Garland: "Today the Department of Justice is suing the state of Georgia”
Brian Kemp said “there is nothing Jim Crow” about Georgia law, but it includes 16 different provisions that make it harder to vote and target metro Atlanta counties with large Black populations

motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
Really key point by AG Garland: if John Roberts had not gutted Voting Rights Act & Georgia still had to approve voting changes with federal government, new voter suppression law "likely would have never taken effect"
26 STATES, including Georgia, have enacted new voter suppression laws since John Roberts gutted Voting Rights Act 8 years ago today & wrote "things have changed dramatically" since 1965
26 states enacted new voting restrictions since John Roberts gutted Voting Rights Act in 2013

40% of these states - like GA, TX, AZ - previously had to approve voting changes & passed voter suppression laws that likely would’ve been blocked under VRA
States that previously had to approve voting changes under Voting Rights Act have closed 1,688 polling places since SCOTUS gutted law:

-750 in Texas
-320 in Arizona
-214 in Georgia
-126 in Louisiana
-96 in Mississippi
-72 in Alabama
If DOJ wins lawsuit against Georgia & proves that GOP intentionally discriminated against Black voters, state could once again have to approve voting changes with federal government under Voting Rights Act. That would be BFD motherjones.com/politics/2021/…

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22 Jun
Senate Dems represent 43 MILLION more people than Senate GOP but 41 Republicans representing just 21% of country can block For the People Act supported by 68% of Americans

This anti-democratic system is exactly what HR1 intended to reform motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
"Ds and Rs playing by two sets of rules: Senate Dems must find 10 GOP votes to pass legislation to preserve American democracy—giving Mitch McConnell veto power—while GOP state legislatures unilaterally enact barrage of new voter suppression bills through simple majority vote"
.@SenatorWarnock: "What could be more hypocritical and cynical than invoking minority rights in the Senate as a pretext for preventing debate about how to preserve minority rights in the society?"
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10 Jun
New data: GOP state legislatures have passed 24 new laws in 14 states this year making it easier to overturn elections, interfering with election administration & criminalizing efforts by election officials to make it easier to vote. This is terrifying motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
216 bills introduced in 41 states this year making it easier for GOP state legislatures to interfere with elections, including potentially overturning election results
Here’s chart showing how GOP state legislatures interfering with free elections in 14 states:

-Seizing election oversight

-Meddling in election administration

-Imposing criminal penalties for election officials

statesuniteddemocracy.org/wp-content/upl…
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9 Jun
Thrilled & honored to win @SidneyHillman award with @NickSurgey for breaking story in @motherjones showing leaked video of dark money group Heritage Action bragging to donors about writing GOP voter suppression bills. Big thanks to everyone who read story hillmanfoundation.org/sidney-awards/…
In leaked video Heritage Action brags to donors about writing voter suppression laws for GOP state legislators in GA TX etc

“we actually draft them for them or we give them the model legislation so it has that grassroots, from-the-bottom-up type of vibe” motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
Heritage Action told secret donors they “had a bit of fun” with Joe Manchin & held rally in WV pressuring him to oppose HR1 & keep filibuster

Connection between dark money & voter suppression exactly what For the People Act intended to stop motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
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7 Jun
I cannot get over the fact that Joe Manchin says voting rights legislation must have “bipartisan” supermajority when Republicans brazenly changing the rules in the states to prevent Dems from ever winning another fair election. Total unilateral disarmament
Republicans are engaged in greatest roll back of voting rights since Reconstruction but we’re supposed to believe 10 GOP senators will support new Voting Rights Act? C’mon Joe Manchin
I don't recall Republicans asking for bipartisan support before they introduced 400 voter suppression bills & enacted 22 new voter suppression laws in 14 states so far this year
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2 Jun
Memo to @SenatorSinema: in 1890s states like Mississippi rushed to disenfranchise Black voters, House passed bill to stop it but Senate filibustered legislation protecting voting rights & we got Jim Crow. Now history will repeat itself if Dems don’t act motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
"The same pattern that existed during Reconstruction—the enfranchisement of Black voters, followed by the manipulation of election laws to throw out Black votes, culminating in laws passed to legally disenfranchise Black voters—is repeating itself today"
In 1890 Mississippi rewrote constitution to disenfranchise Black voters

That year House passed bill to protect voting rights but killed by Senate filibuster

By 1907 every Southern state had changed constitution to keep Blacks from voting & Black turnout fell from 61% to 2%
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2 Jun
New cover story @motherjones: GOP enacting greatest assault on voting rights since end of Reconstruction and if Congress doesn’t pass federal legislation to stop new wave of Jim Crow 2.0 voter suppression laws Second Reconstruction will end like the first motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
“The same pattern that existed during Reconstruction—the enfranchisement of Black voters, followed by the manipulation of election laws to throw out Black votes, culminating in laws passed to legally disenfranchise Black voters—is repeating itself today”
"the vicious white backlash that has followed Biden's victory—an attempt to overturn the election, an insurrection at the US Capitol, a record number of bills to restrict voting rights—has all the makings of a concerted attempt to end the second Reconstruction"
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