NEW YORK (Dagbladet): Schumer brought the ointment of force to the floor in the Senate in an attempt to get his Republican colleagues to open up for a debate on a comprehensive suffrage law, which the Democrats want. It is especially Trump’s repeated lies that the presidential election was stolen from him that upset Schumer.
– He lied again and again and again. Poisoned our democracy and started a fire among Republican state legislatures that immediately launched the most comprehensive effort to suppress voting rights in at least 80 years, Schumer said. The Hill and adds:
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– A big lie
– How contemptible is Donald Trump? He lost a legitimate choice. He fails to deal with it, and it is his fault, and he creates a lie, a big lie, and wins over so many people to support that lie with the help of news media and other commentators, who lie too, and they know the.
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On Tuesday, the Senate will vote on whether they want to debate the bill For The People Act. So far, all 50 Republican senators have opposed the bill. The goal of the new law is to make it easier to vote in the United States. At the same time, Republican elected officials in a number of states are fighting hard to limit their ability to vote.
Schumer read out several of the proposals from Republican-led state assemblies.
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– Does it sound like Jim Crow (the segregation laws in the Southern States journ.anm.), My Republican colleagues? It really does for many of us. The big lie, which started with Donald Trump, has infected them, Schumer says of Republican senators.
According to the law, voters will automatically be registered, all states must allow at least 15 days of advance voting, restrictions on postal votes will be removed, and an end to so-called gerrymandering. In addition, the law tries to make it more transparent who donates money to various candidates.
