Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Wednesday accused Democrats of proposing voter laws that he considered “Jim Crow 2.0” during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
During the hearing, Cruz said the For the People Act, which in part aims to expand ballot access, would “prevent Democrats from being voted out of power.”
“Today’s congressional Democrats do not believe in the right to vote,” Cruz said. “They do not believe in democracy and they are championing efforts to take away the right to vote from American citizens.”
The Texas senator said that Democrats were the original authors of the Jim Crow laws, which enforced racial segregation in the late 1800s. Cruz added that the only objective of new election laws is to keep Democrats in power for the next hundred years, calling it the “Corrupt Politicians Act.”
“So what’s Jim Crow 2.0? It’s the latest efforts of Democrats to write laws to prevent the voters from voting Democrats out of power,” Cruz asserted.
Rep. Marc Veasey (D-Texas) used the term “Jim Crow 2.0” on Tuesday in reference to a Republican effort to tighten voting rules in Texas, Florida, Georgia.
“We are always going to push back against these sort of bigoted, racist, Jim Crow 2.0-style voting laws,” Veasey said….
Inspire an insurrection? Forgivable. Systemic racism? Not a problem. But if you criticize Chick-fil-A, you’d better watch out, because that’s the hill Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is willing to die on.
The senator devoted a tweet thread to defending the chicken sandwich chain on Wednesday after students at the University of Notre Dame wrote a letter opposing a proposed Chick-fil-A restaurant on its Indiana campus. Students at the Catholic college cited “ethical concerns” over the chain’s well-known anti-LGBTQ stance and donations to anti-LGBTQ causes.
Graham said it was “disappointing to hear some ND students and faculty want to ban Chick-fil-A from doing business on campus because they disagree with the values held by the Chick-fil-A founders.”
“I want everyone in South Carolina and across America to know I have Chick fil-A’s back,” he tweeted. “I hope we don’t have to, but I will go to war for the principles Chick fil-A stands for. Great food. Great service. Great values. God bless Chick fil-A!”
Graham, a devoted Donald Trump ally, has remained loyal to the former president even after he incited a violent insurrection on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Graham has pointed the finger at others, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), over the attack. And while he has condemned the insurrection, his support for Trump has not waned…
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lindsey-graham-chick-fil-a_n_60efae71e4b0b2a04a205078
In a smart move Josh Hawley is encouraging his fellow Missourians to get vaccinated.
Good for him.
Blink three times if you are being held against your will and need help…