H.R. 1 incorporates the great voting rights reform laws that the late iconic Rep. John Lewis started introducing in 2012. H.R. 1 is able to go to the ground now for a House vote. (H.R. 4 will take extra time in Congress due to the necessity to construct an evidentiary document to beat the Shelby County Supreme Court resolution.)
Hearings have been held on H.R. 1 within the final Congress and the laws handed by a 234–193 vote. H.R. 1 on this Congress is principally the identical invoice as within the final Congress and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has labeled H.R. 1 a high precedence for fast motion in 2021.
Congress should transfer H.R. 1 quick if its provisions to make sure each eligible voter can vote and to guard the integrity of our election course of are to be in place for the 2022 elections.
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“There is something deeply hypocritical in a society that holds an inner-city child only eight years old “accountable” for her performance on a high-stakes standardized exam but does not hold the high officials of our government accountable for robbing her of what they gave their own kids six or seven years before.”
~~Jonathan Kozol, The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America (2005)
BLAST FROM THE PAST
On this date at Daily Kos in 2004—Do You Feel Safer Now?
As David Neiwert factors out over at Orcinus, we’ve discovered extra weapons of mass destruction within the arms of home terrorists than in Iraq, but our authorities’s efforts to cease one other Oklahoma City are haphazard at finest:
It’s been largely hypothesis, up till now, that home terrorism will not be a significant factor of this administration’s “war on terror.” But in its dealing with of the Texas cyanide bomb case, it is turning into particularly obvious that that is exactly the case…
But what’s actually problematic is the type of intelligence-gathering hole this lack of communication really represents. Certainly it raises questions on how totally, and with what vitality, the present investigation is being pursued. It’s particularly vital to find out whether or not there are extra of those bombs on the market, as a number of of the information reviews thus far have instructed. …
Notably, that is the second such case already this yr, and each have been cracked as a result of sheer blind luck. Another would-be home terrorism assault was not too long ago prevented as a result of relations and buddies grew involved. One has to surprise how lengthy we will keep fortunate.
While our authorities flouts worldwide regulation and customary sense with its dealing with of the non-POWs at Guantanamo and expends tens of billions of {dollars} and lots of of American lives in Iraq, its anti-terrorist actions at house are typically, to place it charitably, downright pathetic.
Documents naming Winchester [Virginia] as one in all 10 potential assembly locations for suspected home terrorist conspirators have been discovered a yr in the past, however most native regulation enforcement officers didn’t learn about it till Thursday.
