Glavin also is arguing against the credibility of the woman’s accusation because she was “making jokes,” “eating snacks,” and stayed longer at the mansion to keep working on a speech. (This accuser filed a criminal complaint about the incident today in Albany County)
Starting now: @HouseAdm_Dems Subcommittee on Elections holding a press conference on their new "Voting in America: Ensuring Free and Fair Access to the Ballot" report, released on the 56th Anniversary of the signing of the Voting Rights Act cha.house.gov/sites/democrat…
@HouseAdm_Dems Subcommittee Chairman @GKButterfield says a legislative response to the Brnovich vs. DNC case "is a work in progress"
@HouseAdm_Dems@GKButterfield Butterfield announces his subcommittee "completed our work" on HR4. The Judiciary Committee, also working on the bill, is set to hold "one last hearing" within the next 2 weeks — that committee, not House Admin, is the one writing the actual legislative text
Infrastructure is the star of show, but this could also be a big week for voting policy on Capitol Hill between the negotiations for the new S.1/HR. 1 & the expected unveiling of the John Lewis Act on Friday. Here's my last week of reporting from the Hill to get you up to speed:
First, my dispatch from the House Admin Committee’s hearing on election subversion where two 2020 officials from Detroit, MI and Maricopa, AZ, testified about the threats they faced /extensive efforts to subvert the election results in their communities businessinsider.com/election-offic…
.@AOC to @CNNSotu on the idea that voter suppression can be out-organized: “No. I appreciate the White House’s optimism but I believe it verges on naïveté. It already took historic organizing efforts to overcome voter suppression in 2020,” adds that it’s a “ridiculous premise”
She also said that partisan gerrymandering and emerging trends like politicization of election admin & subversion of election results can’t be overcome by organizing efforts, warned that GOP lawmakers are laying the groundwork to try and overturn election results they don’t like
The main legislative proposal on this in Congress is the Preventing Election Subversion Act, which would ban local election officials from being removed without cause and add more federal protections against harassment/threats towards election officials: businessinsider.com/election-offic…
NEW: The bipartisan infrastructure deal doesn’t include election infrastructure, and advocates are hoping it’ll come in the budget. Sen. Klobuchar told me earlier this week election funding “tied to specific policies” is a “possibility” for reconciliation businessinsider.com/congress-could…
In an effort led by @HelloCTCL, a large group of secs of state, 50 mayors, and 250 election officials called for congress to invest $20 billion over 10 years with 2/3 of the money going directly to localities. businessinsider.com/congress-could…
.@SenatorWarnock told me that while he’d like to see “support for voting rights” in reconciliation, his ultimate goal is to pass a comprehensive voting rights bill. He’s a key member of a group drafting up a revised version of the For the People Act businessinsider.com/congress-could…
.@WhipClyburn announces in House Dems presser that the text/rollout of the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement in the House is expected by August 6, the anniversary of the signing of the 1965 Voting Rights Act
@WhipClyburn Clyburn says "there's tremendous support" in the Dem caucus for expanding Section 5 preclearance to all 50 states