Speaker Pelosi on today's Repub Block of the John Lewis Voting Rights Act

[Budi]

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The House-passed Voting Rights Advancement Act empowers TheJusticeDept to block voting restrictions imposed by states with dark histories of discrimination & ensure voters have fair access to the ballot – a cause to which our beloved John Lewis devoted his entire life.

Democrats will not relent until every American can have a say in the destiny of our democracy. Read my full statement here:
https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/11321-4

Pelosi Statement on Republican Obstruction of John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act
NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement after Republicans blocked the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act from advancing in the Senate:

“Today, Senate Republicans again undermined the sacred right to vote and harmed their own constituents when they blocked the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.

“Right now, our nation faces the most sinister and severe campaign of voter suppression since Jim Crow. Across the country, Republican state legislators and Republican-appointed judges are silencing the voices of voters – especially in communities of color. This year alone, we have seen states enact 33 new laws restricting access to the ballot, as well as a Supreme Court ruling in Brnovich v. DNC that further eroded the Voting Rights Act.

“While Republicans in Congress shamefully abandon their oath to defend our democracy and greenlight this brazen assault for their own political gain, Democrats are fighting back. Our House-passed Voting Rights Advancement Act empowered the Justice Department to block voting restrictions imposed by states with dark histories of discrimination so every voter has fair access to the ballot box – a cause to which our beloved John Lewis courageously devoted his entire life. Proudly, the people are with us: on an overwhelming and bipartisan basis, Americans support the passage of this urgent, essential legislation.

“Democrats will not relent until this bill, and the Freedom to Vote Act, are enshrined into law so that every American can have a say in the destiny of our democracy.”

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Thank You for your eternal fight Speaker Pelosi. America has been well served under your honorable leadership ~ our trust remains in your hands.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. As the Rev. Sen. Raphael Warnock said...

"There are people who don't want some people to vote."

Keep repeating that and ask Republican lawmakers, Who are the people you do not want voting?

[Demobrat]

3. You can't shame people who have no shame.

They don’t want anybody not white and middle class or better to vote and they don’t care who knows it.

[lastlib]

4. They're throwbacks to the colonial era...

when the ruling elite thought that only those *with property* (which excluded women and blacks, because they WERE property) should have the right to vote. The GOP has wet dreams about going back to that.

[in2herbs]

2. I know it can't be done, but wouldn't it be something to challenge to Rs with if the Ds would agree

to hold a new presidential election -- right now -- on the condition that the Rs first agree to get rid of the EC and pass the Lewis Act before any election? The Ds could actually use their refusal to prove that Rs don't want fair elections and don't want everyone to vote.

[Cha]

5. Rt TY for this from

Nancy Pelosi, Budi!