House Republican leaders are slamming the brakes on voting rights legislation, insisting that any movement on the issue go through a key Republican committee chairman who opposes the proposal.
House Democrats are pressing hard on GOP leaders to bring the new voter protections directly to the floor.
That would sidestep consideration in the House Judiciary Committee, where Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) has rejected a bipartisan proposal to update the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA) in the wake of a 2013 Supreme Court decision that gutted a central provision of that law.
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and other Republican leaders say the bill must go through Judiciary.
“Speaker Boehner has said that he believes that the Voting Rights Act has been an effective tool in protecting a right that is fundamental to our democracy. That’s why we reauthorized the law for 25 years in 2006,” a Boehner spokesperson said Friday in an email. “He also believes that if members want to change the law, those discussions will have to begin at the Judiciary Committee.”they are either obstructing, doing nothing or passing that proverbial buck all are designed for the same end game not to do anything that changes what is in their favor to steal elections and silence American citizens voices through their vote.
violating their constitutional rights that republicans continually harp as their primary objective protection of the constitution probably the biggest misleading next to ObamaCares they are frauds and less than half of American voters love the fact that they are because they keep voting against their own interest.
they will not do anything on their own to correct this atrocity against American taxpaying voters primarily Progressive. so where is the DOJ and why hasn't the scotus righted their obvious even to them their destruction of democracy and disenfranchising Americans.
