Thread by @HayesBrown

You know how you can register to vote at the DMV? Mitch McConnell fought against that bill in 1992, calling it a “solution in search of a problem.”

He’s saying the exact same thing now about Dem bills making it easier to vote

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From 1992, again on the National Voter Registration Act: "Republicans, who twice in the last year used the threat of a filibuster to block the measure from coming to the floor, say the bill will encourage vote fraud.”

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McConnell DID say a lot of good things about the Voting Rights Act — before the Supreme Court gutted it. This was him in 2004, arguing for making DOJ preclearance permanent instead of needing reauthorization

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But once the Roberts court gave him cover? McConnell has never once looked back. Instead of defending a law on the books, SCOTUS let him pretend that reauthorizing the VRA would be a -new- federal overreach

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And so it goes: McConnell has always seen any shift from the status quo on voting — either through campaign finance reform or making it easier to vote — as a threat to GOP victories. Anything he says on elections should be seen through that lens.

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And when I say McConnell is saying the “exact same thing” now, I mean EXACT SAME THING.

1992: nytimes.com/1992/05/21/us/…

2021: politico.com/news/2021/09/1…