Schumer Vows To Bring Voting Bills, Rules Changes To Senate Floor

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Schumer Vows To Bring Voting Bills, Rules Changes To Senate Floor


Andrew Trunsky
Political Reporter
December 20, 2021 9:25 AM ET


Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Monday that Democrats would take up voting bills immediately once they return in January and that they may take up changes to Senate rules if Republicans continue to block them.

“The Senate will consider voting rights legislation, as early as the first week back,” Schumer wrote in a Dear Colleague letter Monday. “Previous attempts to simply debate such legislation have been obstructed by Republican filibusters, effectively defending the voter suppression and election nullification laws passed by so many Republican state legislatures on party lines with simple majorities.”

“If Senate Republicans continue to abuse the filibuster and prevent the body from considering this bill, the Senate will then consider changes to any rules which prevent us from debating and reaching final conclusion on important legislation,” Schumer wrote.

Schumer’s letter comes several days after the Senate adjourned for the year having not passed any of Democrats’ long-sought voting bills. Schumer has brought them to the floor throughout 2021, but Republicans have repeatedly blocked them, with the GOP saying that they amount to little more than a federal takeover of elections.

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https://dailycaller.com/2021/12/20/chuck-schumer-democrat-voting-senate-rules-filibuster/

[Killer Clouds]

A federal takeover of elections is unconstitutional.

[Right_in_Virginia]

A federal takeover of elections is unconstitutional.

Our supreme court won't bat an eye.

[Fishrrman]

RinVa predicts:
"Our supreme court won't bat an eye."

"No standing..."

[libertybele]

Schumer will continue to push.  Just a note:

The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2021 (H.R. 4) is proposed legislation that would restore and strengthen parts of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, certain portions of which were struck down by two United States Supreme Court decisions of Shelby County v. Holder and Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee. Particularly, it would restore the Voting Rights Act's requirement that certain states pre-clear certain changes to their voting laws with the federal government. It was re-introduced in the 117th Congress, and is named after late Georgia Representative and voting rights activist John Lewis.

On August 24, 2021, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the bill by a margin of 219–212.[4] On November 3, 2021, the bill failed to pass the Senate after failing to get the 60 votes needed to invoke cloture

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lewis_Voting_Rights_Act

[Hoodat]

Rules changes?  According to Article I, Section 5 of the US Constitution, the Senate sets its own rules.  And Kamala Harris is not a member of the Senate.

[Hoodat]

Schumer will continue to push.  Just a note:

The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2021 (H.R. 4) is proposed legislation that would restore and strengthen parts of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, certain portions of which were struck down by two United States Supreme Court decisions of Shelby County v. Holder and Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee. Particularly, it would restore the Voting Rights Act's requirement that certain states pre-clear certain changes to their voting laws with the federal government. It was re-introduced in the 117th Congress, and is named after late Georgia Representative and voting rights activist John Lewis.

Typical Democrats.  The Supreme court rules a law unconstitutional, so they override the Supreme Court by re-passing the unconstitutional law.