Frustrated supporters often ask why Democrats no longer do to fight back against Trump and to fight for democracy.
An event on Tuesday has shown what Democrats are doing and why so many people know nothing about it.
Democrats held a press conference to announce the reintroduction of the John Lewis Voice Rights Advancement Act.
Senator Raphael Warnock was one of the senators who spoke during the event, and he said:
Here is the thing, voting rights are retaining all other rights. That’s right. Democracy is the house in which we live. It is the framework in which we can fight.
For the things we care about. There are so many places around the world where you are not allowed to fight, you cannot use your voice in the way that we have taken for granted. And these last seven months have reminded us that we should not consider it. We are literally in a fight for the life of the Republic.
We are contrary to ensuring that everyone has a voice and that we do not admit to the authoritarian movement that is currently in our country. So much is at stake, and at the moment we are, even when we are here to push this John Lewis vote rights law, to recall the legislators in Texas in a special session.
Think about that. In Texas they go back in session in the middle of July to restore the cards in the middle of the decade. They not only say the silent part aloud, they also act with a revenge in real time. And so think about it. The people who have just removed health care from 16 million Americans.
The people who have just adopted legislation that ensure that almost everyone’s health care premiums are now working to ensure that those Americans do not have the opportunity to dismiss them. They have robbed people from a doctor and now they try to do the voting cards.
That is why we must approve the law on the voting rights of the voting rights and we have to do this now. And so instead of representing the needs of the people, they bring the next one and a half years of trying to draw the lines again, so that the people from their democratic system are pressed, so that they no longer have a voice and a voice.
This is what you call to turn democracy upside down. So, instead of the people who choose their representatives, politicians can choose their own people.
The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act restores the federal pre-free of changes in voting rights in states that have had violations in the past. The legislation also extends the capital of the courts to protect the voting rights, and it requires that federal pre-clearance in states that have votes on violations before a state can change its voter ID laws or redistribution.
The introduction of this legislation is an important development, but it received zero coverage in the regular media.
It is not going to pass this year, but with Democrats who think they have a good chance of taking back the house and the Senate next year, they support support and demonstrate their priorities for the future when they control the congress and the White House again.
The rewritten law of the voting rights followed the Shelby Decision Guidelines of the Supreme Court, so it starts under the starting point that it will survive a legal challenge.
Democrats send the message that they have the tools to strengthen democracy. They only need voters to give them the power to act.
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