US President Joe Biden on Tuesday made a full-throated appeal for U.S. voting rights legislation stalled in Congress, saying Democratic lawmakers should rewrite Senate rules to overcome Republican opposition.
In a speech designed to breathe life into the fight to pass federal voting laws and convince skeptical Democrats of his commitment, Biden called many Republicans cowardly and committed to changing the U.S. Senate “filibuster” to pass legislation.
Calling it a “battle for the soul of America,” the Democratic president put the voting rights effort on par with the fight against segregation by slain civil rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Former US President Donald Trump maintains the 2020 election was stolen by Democrats through voter fraud, despite investigations’ finding no supporting evidence. Since then, Republican lawmakers in 19 states have passed dozens of laws making it harder to vote. Critics say these measures target minorities, who vote in greater proportions for Democrats.
Biden on Tuesday said Republicans must choose which side of history they want to be on, as he contrasted civil rights heroes with the country’s most ardent white supremacists. “Do you want to be on the side of Martin Luther King or George Wallace?” Biden asked, referring to the segregationist former Alabama governor.
George Wallace was a DEMOCRAT governor and admired a young Joe Biden.
FLASHBACK: Joe Biden once bragged about being praised by George Wallace. pic.twitter.com/kXhHBRLtrI
— House Republicans (@HouseGOP) January 11, 2022
Joe Biden said during this speech that people who disagree with his bill to federalize elections are "domestic enemies" and are on the side of George Wallace, Bull Connor, and Jefferson Davis.
What you see here is truly the soul of nation being restored. pic.twitter.com/P2gZi5K0nS
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) January 11, 2022
His tone echoed remarks on the one-year anniversary of the attacks on the U.S. Capitol, reflecting a new White House calculus after a year focused on working with Republicans. Supporters of Trump were attempting “a coup” on Jan. 6, 2021, Biden said Tuesday.
“Not a single Republican has displayed the courage to stand up to a defeated president to protect America’s right to vote,” Biden said. “Not one.”
Before Biden spoke, there was a moment of solemnity as he and Vice President Kamala Harris stood before King’s gravesite, with King’s family standing nearby, heads bowed. Biden and Harris later spoke on the shared campus of Clark Atlanta University and Morehouse College, two historically Black schools.
Jesiah Osbourne, 21, a senior at Morehouse who gives Biden mixed reviews overall, said he credits the president for pushing for a cornerstone civil right even in the absence of a clear legislative path. “It’s not going to happen overnight,” he said. “There’s no unity.”
Many activists say Biden should have done more during his first year in office to push for reforms, and some, including Georgia’s Stacey Abrams, did not attend his speech.
Biden told reporters on Tuesday that he spoke to Abrams, and despite a schedule mix-up, they are “on the same page.”
“The President deeply understands that Congress must pass” the voting-rights bills “by whatever legislative means necessary,” said Abrams, a Democratic candidate for governor in Georgia.
Filibuster carve-out
Biden wants to build public support for the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. The bills would make Election Day a holiday, register new voters, and strengthen U.S. Justice Department oversight of local election jurisdictions with a history of discrimination.
Both bills have languished in the Senate under united opposition from Republicans, who argue they would impose questionable national standards on local elections.
Biden said if no breakthrough on the legislation can be achieved, lawmakers in the Senate should “change the Senate rules, including getting rid of the filibuster for this.”
The filibuster is a parliamentary maneuver effectively requiring a 60-vote majority in the Senate for passage of most bills, instead of a simple majority.
“Sadly, the United States Senate, designed to be the greatest deliberative body, has been rendered a shell of its former self,” Biden said.
There it is:
Joe Biden forcefully says the Senate should get rid of the filibuster so Democrats can pass their bill federalizing elections, eliminating election integrity laws, watering down voter ID laws and keeping Democrats in power forever. pic.twitter.com/mRgcoPbBMp
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) January 11, 2022
Republicans criticized Biden’s proposal as overreach.
“What the Democrats have coined a ‘voting rights’ bill is really just a partisan, political power grab. And now they want to eliminate the filibuster in order to advance this terrible legislation, which would only compound confusion in our election process,” Senator Mike Crapo said after Biden’s speech.
It was Biden’s most direct plea to date for the Senate to change its rules. Democrats, with only narrow control of the chamber, do not currently have the votes for such a maneuver.
Biden said he had had quiet conversations with lawmakers about the legislation in recent months, but “I’m tired of being quiet.”
Newly passed laws in Republican states could impact as many as 55 million Americans, the White House said.
Georgia was a battleground state in the 2020 election, and Democrats won two crucial U.S. Senate seats there that gave them effective control of the chamber. Last year, the Republican-led state legislature approved sweeping voting restrictions. The Justice Department sued, saying the law infringes the rights of Black voters.
Democrats are girding themselves for tough 2022 congressional elections that could strip them of their majority and the chance to change federal voting laws.
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“Calling it a “battle for the soul of America,” the Democratic president put the voting rights effort on par with the fight against segregation by slain civil rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.” How right you are, Mr Viden, in your assertion, but how wrong you are in identifying the cause of the problem.
The same old worn-out record: name0calling—finger-pointing—racism—and its all a mean-spirited assault on Democrats and their agenda—and a threat to our democracy.
“I’m tired of being quiet.” We’re tired of your worthless drivel.
LET’S GO BRANDON
IT Is a battle for our soul. THE LEFT WANTS TO DESTROY IT!
slo joe the demented, calling for unity, while insulting over half the population of the US. I guess you don’t really need a brain to be POTUS.
SO far, the ONLY DEM who had one, seemed to be kennedy…
“US President Joe Biden on Tuesday made a full-throated appeal for U.S. voting rights legislation stalled in Congress, saying
Democratic lawmakers should rewrite Senate rules
to overcome Republican opposition.”
You will obey, be loyal and support the policies of the “Socialist Democrat Party State” or you will be classified as
“Enemies of the State” and “Domestic terrorists”.
Democrats have vigorously used the filibuster. It’s pathetic they now won’t pledge to protect it.
Under Trump, procedural delays in the Senate skyrocketed, the Disgraceful Democrat Party used the filibuster 314 times against the Republicans.
But now that the Senate is evenly divided between Democrats and republicans, the Democrats do not want a 60% majority to pass their cons and deceptive Bills.
Joe. & kameltoe go down to Georgia to change intelligent voters minds about voting but over the Hillary and goon Abraham’s refuse to be seen with them! They can pretend they are not together but put them in a bag shake up dump out and no matter what’s comes out first you still have a big pile of sh#t.
“The Devil went down to Georgia
He was lookin’ for a soul to steal
He was in a bind ’cause he was way behind
And he was willin’ to make a deal
When he came across this young man
Sawin’ on a fiddle and playin’ it hot
And the Devil jumped upon a hickory stump
And said, “Boy, let me tell you what”” – Charlie Daniels
Background music for Biden’s speech.
Thank You Illuminato, Haven’t heard that song in years but still remember every note of it. One lil tweet tho’:
And the devil jumped upon a hickory stump
and got told “Boy, let me tell you Trump!”…. BobLee
As for the traitorous American President,
You better stay out of my state boy…
IN THIS case, the devil DID GO to georgia.. BOTH OF THEM!
joe and kameltoe went down to georgia looking for some votes to steal so they told some lies and black folks cried for joy
that the devil had come to promise the taking of your souls.
stupid is that stupid does.
We’re not all stupid in Georgia capricorn1. Check yourself lest you become the very ones you despise.
I doubt Joe even read the damn bill, or he would not make a fool of himself AGAIN displaying himself as a traitor to his race, with untrue references to the Civil war, his Party by speech elevating Lincoln a REPUBLICAN, his gender which offends even Tracy Abrams who didn’t show up, his religion by bearing false witness against fellow whites in claims of racial hatred he himself holds, and his country by becoming Bernie’s court jester fool, and the worst excuse for a president, even his own Democrats won’t admit they voted for him, or show up in the same room.. He mentions MLK all the while MLK was marching for civil rights Joes dining with and praising KKK Grand Dragon Byrd. His memory is so short or his lies so connived I doubt he can remember what he had for breakfast let alone what being a real American stands for,,,,,, and it’s not the racial division he spouts in a desperate attempt to hold on to his failing administration.
I honestly think he’s incapable of READING.. Let alone comprehending what’s in the bill..
The only thing this Marxist/Democrat bill will do is make your votes, useless. They are just pushing another Con Game Bill to destroy our voting system.
Just remember, take the OPPOSITE of EVERYTHING Biden (all democrats) says to find TRUTH.
The biden and the whole of the party of demons (DEMONcrats) are surely following their master satan as they are doing everything to destroy this country as fast as they can.
1) they destroyed the southern border
2) they caused irreparable damage to the police departments across the country
3) they turned the criminal justice system upside down releasing as many criminals as they could
4) they made it so that criminals almost cannot be touched (
5) black criminals get special privileges and considerations to make them as comfortable as possible, white criminals get nothing and are made as uncomfortable as possible.
6) major criminal groups such as antifa get special treatment and even avoid any form of government prosecution.
There are so many more points but the satan worshipping DEMONcrats will do absolutely anything to grab as much power as they can and steal as many votes as they can go stay in power forever, the only thing the satan worshipping DEMONcrats deserve is 7th level of he11, there is not one living DEMONcrat today that wants to see a free people because a free people means they loose all the control over the people
Funny, when he was a Senator he found the filibuster very useful in order to block legislation by Republicans! So did his cohort in Chuck Schumer. That he should briing the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. into the discussion is a disgrace to a great man’s memory since he would have been a Wallace supporter!
PLUS Wallace, sung his PRAISES…
SO how dare he say WE WHO ARE against his bill, are followers OF wallace..
Think the withdrawal from fondling & sniffing women has caused pervert Joe to be very angry.
Or maybe his handlers, worried about his usual mumbling monotonous speeches, gave him.some PCP to.trigger some artificial rage / aggression to help him deliver the most remarkably hateful, spiteful & derogatory speech that has ever given by a US President targeting the multi million majority of citizens who are sick of being severely financially & physically harmed by tyrannical Marxist Dem policies.
Of course some other Dems wrote Joe’s speech & filled it with their usual demagoguery, hate & vengeful.threats specifically directed at the majority of US citizens, who have made clear they wouldn’t bother to spit on any Dem politicians if they were on fire.