Schumer wants to take up voting rights bill, hints at action on filibuster
Senator Chuck Schumer wants to get a voting rights bill moving in the Senate. He’s insisting on updating voting in this country and is lamenting the fact that the States could pass voting related bills with a simple majority. However, in the U.S. Senate, the Republicans are leveraging the filibuster to prevent a voting rights bill to progress through. Senator Schumer had a different term for the voting integrity bills passed at the state level.
From Newsmax.com:
”I believe the Senate needs to be restored to its rightful status as the world’s greatest deliberative body. … If Republicans continue to hijack the rules of the chamber to protect us from protecting our democracy, then the Senate will debate and consider changes to the rules on or before Jan. 17,” Schumer said in a lengthy floor speech Friday.
”If Senate Republicans continue to abuse the filibuster to prevent this body from acting, then I would plead with the Senate — particularly my colleagues on this side of the aisle — to adapt. And we must adapt for the sake of our democracy,” he said.
Schumer last week said he planned to push ahead with debate and consideration of changing the Senate’s filibuster rules by MLK Day if voting rights legislation continues to be blocked.
”We must ask ourselves: if the right to vote is the cornerstone of our democracy, then how can we in good conscience allow for a situation in which the Republican Party can debate and pass voter suppression laws at the State level with only a simple majority vote, but not allow the United States Senate to do the same,” he wrote in a ”Dear Colleague” letter.
”We must adapt. The Senate must evolve, like it has many times before,” Schumer wrote.
But Democratic Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona are not on board with getting rid of the 60-vote threshold to proceed with legislation, and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., on Wednesday endorsed pursuing changes to the 1887 law allowing members of Congress to dispute election results, a suggestion blasted by Schumer.
The Newsmax source article is at this link.
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I heard that the new DC Kremlin wants to have their socialist party run the elections/rules so that their would end up with only one political party for the rest of our lives. Heard it on WFTL 850 AM, Fl. Radio during the week.
Da, comrade, is “democracy”!
As most Democrats insist:
I’m completely OK with this land whale coming to hunt me down.
Ain’t no Starebux nor gas stations for Lil Debbie’s in them woods for when it’s ‘blood sugar’ come crashing down.
Wise words from Mister John J…:
Riddle me this: Why is it that Democrats filibustering against a Republican majority are brave and courageous and upstanding responsible leaders, and Republicans filibustering against a Democrat majority are foul, evil beings one step removed from whale excrement?
It’s all about packaging, the communists in the democrat party present everything in emotional terms and do a very good job of convincing dumbasses of the righteousness of their causes. If you have the media constantly presenting your agenda as a fight against evil and always vilifying your opponents eventually it becomes the truth. Politicians being what they are will always follow the path of least resistance, hence the republicans decades long slide to the left. Like it or not social media and Hollywood, and MSM control popular culture and it continues to slide farther left, unless the right can find a way to counter that our country as we know it is screwed.
It’s “voting rights” for illegal aliens, felons, minors and every other Democrat to vote Democrat multiple times all Democrat agenda items regardless of that the people actually want.
Anyone who disagrees is “racist,” comrade!
Goebbels smiles…
Da Big Lie…
There is no independent 4th estate. They’ve been all in for one direction for sometime now.
Without the ability to influence popular culture we lose, maybe not immediately but over time. Just look at all the issues we thought of as crazy or fringe 20-30 years ago that are completely mainstream now. Trumps populism scared the crap out of them and now we have a accelerated double down on their agenda if Manchin and Sinema are convinced to support this agenda it’s going to be impossible to change it back.
Also, Joe McCarthy was right:
Another domestic enemy of our Republic whose obit I will read with the greatest of pleasure.
PHUQUE HEEM!
Schumer is the most disgusting politician of my lifetime
followed closely by Nadler.
Why can’t they just get hit by a bus or something?
The coroner could list it as “natural causes”.
Natural causes? No money for the hospital in that. They would have to have had the Wuhan Flu, just like the gunshot victims, LOLFDGB who died, etc. all about the reimbursement where they get pronounced.
How did Harry Reid’s filibuster change work out for the Dems? Three, THREE SCOTUS seats for the one term Trump administration.
As for Schumer’s ill named voting rights wet dream, it’s patently unconstitutional. A 6-3 SCOTUS finding against at least, if Joe’s Handlers give him the pen.]
See paragraph one and ponder the law of unintended consequences.
This is all the Dems have left?
This is all the Dems have left. TIFIFY.
For Democrats, “democracy” means they get what they want all the time– jawohl!
Well if they do abolish the filibuster I have an agenda for when conservatives are in charge.
1. National constitutional carry.
2. Term Limits.
3. Real border security.
4. Abolish teacher unions.
Defund NPR. The list is endless.
Show me the suppression. Take your time, I’ll wait.
Come on, SFC D, the suppression is that Dems are only supposed to vote once in an election. And the voters are supposed to be citizens.
The Dems will never admit it, though.
Preventing any felon, non-citizen and multiple voting for Democrats is “suppression,” comrade!
Washington state is all vote by mail since 2005 but a recent Seattle City Council member’s recall election close victory showed tightening up of laws is necessary.
Sawant faced three charges on the ballot related to her activism while in office. 57% of the funding against her recall came from outside her district.
Councilwoman Kshama Sawant, of the Socialist Alternative Party, had supporters working out of multiple tents along busy Capitol Hill streets who “invited voters to “print your ballot here” using cellphones and tabletop printers. Under the same tents, Sawant supporters stood beneath “Vote No” posters and enthusiastically handed out campaign literature and candidate pins while engaging with voters about the recall.”
https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/editorials/expand-ballot-access-free-of-voter-coercion/
The above example in Washington shows an example of what Shumer would like to expand to the rest of the country. Already NY state wants undocumented illegals to have the chance to vote.
D-rats flip flop on the filibuster. Politicians are hypocrites? Who knew?
It’s simple: Dems want the filibuster to stop Republican efforts, but they don’t want the same filibuster to stop Democrat efforts.
At least they bare always consistent: WE WANT OUR WAY and ONLY OUR WAY!!!
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Their way or the highway.
This is from the Washington Post?
They Democrats are really losing it if they’ve lost one of their biggest media lap dogs.
Jan 2023 Chuck will be calling the filibuster one of the critical pillars of our sacred democracy
Their bogusly named voter “rights” bill provides for national standards and procedures for all elections for national offices, nationwide. The bill provides that no voter ID shall be required in any such election, that motor voter and election day registration shall be mandatory in every state, massive mail in balloting, extended voting hours and days, early voting, and ballot harvesting. These laws are specifically written so that anyone can vote multiple times, and people’s mail-in ballots can be collected by harvesters who will likely fill out ballots for those that don’t bother, are dead, or mentally infirm. It will ensure that the D-rats will win every election; and we will have the D-rats controlling all branches on the federal government in perpetuity. Welcome to a one party dictatorship, comrades, if this passes and is upheld.
Has anyone suggested “voting ink” for the US?
And how about requiring certified mail for absentees?
My favorite would be to get rid of ALL machines and ALL absentee
ballots thus requiring a live body to show up in person.
Deploy voting stations for deployed troops.
Catch a few cheaters and hang them in public. Build the gallows
right next to the polling stations as a reminder to all.
Run tv ads showing a cheater dancing by the neck.
I am of course open to less harsh measures…..barely.
Well, your solution would definitely work, ending voter fraud if picture ID is also required. Then the only problem would be how the votes are counted. I believe it was Stalin who said it matters not who voted, but what matters is who counts the votes. It also helps if the despot can imprison people who don’t vote for him.
rgr769 – you touched on the heart of the matter, and how Democrats have controlled the narrative for decades – messaging. They call it “voter rights”, and Republicans are on their heels trying to defend the apparently indefensible. The response needs to be a separate bill that is actually about voter rights, and named something that puts the Democrats on their heels trying to defend. Maybe “Anti-Voter Fraud”, “Voter Security”, “Vote Safe”, something. Of course, the primary challenge will be getting the name out past the Dems PR machine, which is what the media has become.
To the leftists, “our democracy” means “majoritarian rule” only when they have it, and an autocratic “people’s democracy” where the state reigns supreme when they don’t. Whenever they use the phrase “our democracy”, think North Korea.
What 3/5 of the Politburo wants, that was “democratic” enough for Lenin.
I’ll trade the filibuster with a return to The Constitution: 50+1 vote threshold, with the tiebreaker being the President of the Senate, also known as the 1st place loser of the Electoral College; and repeal of the 17th Amendment so that the Senate represents the States’ Governments… you know, the way it SHOULD be.
“From this view of the subject, it may be concluded that a pure democracy, by which I mean a society, consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person, can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication and concert results from the form of government itself; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party, or an obnoxious individual. Hence it is, that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives, as they have been violent in their deaths. Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneously supposed, that by reducing mankind to a perfect equality in their political rights, they would, at the same time, be perfectly equalized, and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions, and their passions.” -Federalist No. 10.