If Prof. Eric Foner is correct and if Prof. Eddie Glaude is correct … and they are … we are standing at a crossroads.
Do we fulfill the promise of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments and affirm freedom for all or do we shrink from the task? Do we embrace the Second Founding or do we, once again, send black Americans back into the murderous arms of Jim Crow?
In my view, we can no longer wait. Let’s put forward HR 1 and HR 4. We have no more time to dally.
We’re talking about the same Mitt Romney who twice voted to convict the last guy, right? That Mitt Romney?
That’s certainly how the Tories and Loyalists felt.
Whooo boy!
Go Shelly!
To be fair the Constitution as it was originally written had nothing to say about darkies and assorted plebeians voting, it was meant to be a “republic” of White property holders.
And here I thought that Beelzebub was already overextended making policy decisions for GOP Governors, the 24 states where they have full control of the legislative and executive branch, the Supreme Court, most fundamentalist churches along with several radical traditionalist Catholic churches, Fox News, OAN, Newsmax, the entire Trump family, and Lindsey Graham.
You’d think that workload would require his full attention, not to mention help from several lesser demons.
Yay! Sheldon! Bazinga!
I was expecting this dude to be swept up in the arrests of the insurrectionists. However he might not be trackable since his sign was still from the analog era.
Church Lady for the 2020’s
Much like Obi-wan and Anakin.
I’d really hate for bad-faith state voting laws to be overturned. It would be like Satan was telling me what to do.
And, as Jesus said, “Let not brown people go forth and make their voices heard.” Also, “It is true that the meek shall inherit the earth, but let us delay that for as long as possible by trickery.”
Which is exactly why Lee, et al, are vehemently opposed. The lack of national standards gives the states carte blanche, subject only to the ideology of the Supreme Court.
Mike Lee is going to discover that taking a public stance against the right to vote is going to be a hard sell. My guess he is going to have to go full thoated white nationalist and say he isn’t against white people voting, he is only against those other people having the right to vote.
I don’t think making that argument out loud is going to play well.
He actually looks better in that getup than Rand Paul.
I seriously wonder if in this case WTF= Q. You know – Democrats, Satan, baby-eating, etc., etc. Got to play to the base. He’s certainly hopped up on something. Must need a real boost to go full Q.
And yet, Congress always had the authority to dictate to the states the time, places, and manner of choosing their federal representatives. If, on Day 1, the first Congress passed legislation (and President Washington signed it) requiring all the states to allow enslaved people to vote on an equal basis with everyone else in federal elections, that law would have been perfectly constitutional.
Note, however, that Congress can’t legislate the time/place/manner of non-federal elections. That’s the lesson of Oregon v. Mitchell (1970), where the Supreme Court held that Congress could lower the voting age to 18 only for federal elections, not state and local. It took the 26th Amendment to make the voting age uniform across all elections. It would not surprise me in the least if some states attempted to evade the requirements of HR 1 (assuming it becomes law) by moving their state and local elections off the same ballot as the federal races.
This tells me we are on the right track
Some states already schedule their state office elections for odd numbered years.
it were couched in the originalism of white, male land owners.