GOP Senators Will Not Discuss Voting Laws

You can win all the battles over early voting, amount of time polls are open, maintenance of voter registration records, and forms of ID.

If you win all those battles, then whoopdie-ding-doo for you.

But if you lose the battle over whether or not the other major party in your country can overturn elections you actually won by hundreds of thousands and millions of votes, simply because their state GOP-majority legislators feel like it, then you have lost the war.

The need is for Federal legislation to make these new state voting laws — that enable GOP-majority legislatures to easily overturn election results they do not like — a violation of Federal law.  A state law that violates Federal law is not legal — until and unless a large group of people rewrites the Supremacy Clause, found in Article VI, section 2 of the U.S. Constitution.  

As of today’s June 22, 2021, procedural vote, none of the GOP Senators are willing to discuss or debate the topic of voting rules. It’s not that they think the rules should be different. They are not willing to talk about voting laws. Not at all. But they are perfectly happy to allow state legislatures and governors to pass new laws that are completely autocratic.

The part that galls me most? The GOP is the minority party in the US Senate. Minority Rule is not what the crafters of our form of government had in mind.

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