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The Fall of America*
Democratic Senate leadership will try to move their voting rights legislation to a debate today, as the Republican minority wants nothing to do with crafting an argument to defend their opposition to voting rights while their partisans at the state level are busy making a sick joke out of the American democratic experiment.
“So, in state after state, Republicans are reducing polling hours and locations in the number of drop boxes so that Americans of all parties but particularly aimed at Democratic voters,” spoke Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York in his opening remarks from the well of the Senate on Tuesday morning, June 22, ahead of the cloture motion on the For The People Act. “They’re limiting the kind of IDs you can use, like student IDs while at the same time removing requirements for any form of licensing to own a firearm. Has any study shown that there’s less fraud among firearm owners than students? There’s probably very little among either but they pick one group, not the other and we know why. Republican legislatures are making it easier to own a gun than to vote.”
Meanwhile, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is moving forward in their effort to deny communion to President Joe Biden and any other Catholic politicians inclined toward legal abortion, in spite of the pope’s admonitions against using the Eucharist as a political weapon.