Republicans throughout the nation, Berman stated, are “weaponizing Trump’s lies” about fraud in an try to roll again voting rights after final 12 months’s historic turnout and enlargement of mail-in ballots.
“Democrats have a transparent selection,” Berman continued. “They’ll eliminate the filibuster to move the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and the For the Folks Act to cease GOP voter suppression, or they’ll enable the GOP to undermine democracy for the following decade.”
“The stakes,” Berman added, “could not be larger.” That is as a result of, in response to an evaluation carried out by the Brennan Heart for Justice in late January, Republicans on the state stage have launched 3 times as many payments to chip away at voting rights in comparison with the identical level final 12 months.
Already this 12 months, 106 payments have been launched in 28 states—together with 17 underneath full GOP management, the place passage is extra probably—to undermine entry to the franchise. In response to the Brennan Heart’s report, “These proposals primarily search to: (1) restrict mail voting entry; (2) impose stricter voter ID necessities; (3) restrict profitable pro-voter registration insurance policies; and (4) allow extra aggressive voter roll purges.”
“These payments,” the report argues, “are an unmistakable response to the unfounded and harmful lies about fraud that adopted the 2020 election.”
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On this date at Day by day Kos in 2010—Operation Rescue Affords $10,000 Bounty for Medical doctors:
We noticed how this technique performed out in Kansas, with tragic penalties. Operation Rescue collects “proof” of wrongdoing by abortion suppliers. It then lobbies regulation enforcement to analyze the “proof.” Within the case of Dr. Tiller, the group discovered its ally in Phill Kline, now underneath investigation for ethics violations, who spent years investigating and intimidating Dr. Tiller and his clinic. Dr. Tiller was tried and acquitted of all fees, however that did not cease Operation Rescue from persevering with to say that Dr. Tiller had carried out unlawful abortions.
When the regulation fails to carry abortion suppliers accountable for performing a authorized medical process, Operation Rescue provides data to an extremist who seems prepared to take the regulation into his personal fingers, as Scott Roeder did.
In his homicide trial, Dr. Tiller’s murderer, Scott Roeder, claimed that his resolution to homicide Dr. Tiller was, partly, a results of the unsuccessful prosecution of Dr. Tiller.