Morning. ☕
Today, the Senate is voting to put someone who has spent years attacking voting rights, abortion rights and LGBTQ rights in charge of protecting all of those rights for millions of Americans. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/harmeet-dhillon-doj-civil-rights-voting_n_67ed7c26e4b0b937ab8f58f7
Today, the Senate is voting to put someone who has spent years attacking voting rights, abortion rights and LGBTQ rights in charge of protecting all of those rights for millions of Americans. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/harmeet-dhillon-doj-civil-rights-voting_n_67ed7c26e4b0b937ab8f58f7
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Feeling well, feeling the winning #losers?
Stinky sure knows how to pick the finest legal minds doesn’t it?
yea on a strict party line vote
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00159.htm
Her law firm has filed more than a dozen lawsuits across 8 states aimed at challenging voting rights + election processes.
She’s called congressional efforts to restore part of the law an “unnecessary power grab."
Hirono noted 13 states promptly passed laws making it harder to vote after part of the Voting Rights Act was struck down.
What did those 13 states do?
They closed 1,688 polling stations within six years of the court decision. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/harmeet-dhillon-doj-civil-rights-voting_n_67ed7c26e4b0b937ab8f58f7
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YOU MUST BLOCK THIS VOTE
The questions should be:
Are there a few GOP willing to vote country over party?
Are there a few GOP brave enough to go against Trump?
Are there a few GOP patriotic enough to do the right thing?
The voters are at fault here. They put the Rethuglicans in charge and are now reaping the benefits.