The 14th Amendment, the 15th Amendment, the Enforcement Acts, the Klu Klux Klan Act, and the Civil Rights Act of 1875 all passed without a single Democratic vote. Sometimes doing the right thing is more important than being bipartisan.
https://twitter.com/dziblatt/status/1401699279840894987
Does anyone really think we shouldn't have given former slaves full citizenship and the right to vote, and protected them from being terrorized in the south because it wasn't bipartisan?
Sometimes doing what's right is more important than being bipartisan. It takes casting a hard, and yes, sometimes partisan vote. Well this is one of those times. We can't allow those openly hostile to democracy dicate the terms of it's reform.
If we continue to insist that protecting voting rights be done on a bipartisan basis while allowing our opponents to restrict voting rights on a party-line basis, we are not just surrendering democracy but allowing them to dictate the terms of it's surrender.
Let me be clear: it is essential that we pass the #FreedomToVoteAct, the #JohnLewisVotingRightsAct and update the Electoral Count Act this year – as essential as the 14th and 15th amendment were in the 1860s. If Republicans would like to join us that's great. If not, so be it.
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