McConnell declares ‘compromise’ election takeover dead on arrival in the Senate
District of Columbia | June 21, 2021
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has all but declared Senate Democrats’ latest proposed version of S. 1 — legislation that would nationalize election law away from the states — dead on arrival in the U.S. Senate.
Under regular order, Democrats will need at least 10 Senate Republicans to sign on to the new plan, but so far, McConnell and the Senate GOP appear to be holding the line.
“Senate Democrats seem to have reached a so-called ‘compromise’ election takeover among themselves,” McConnell noted in a June 17 statement, amid political reports that Democrats are presently attempting to court moderate Republicans in the Senate.
But so far, besides Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), who has already co-sponsoring legislation to reinstate Justice Department oversight of state election law, no other Senate Republicans have declared any support for Democratic election legislation in the Senate.
Which is little wonder. According to McConnell, the new and improved S. 1 is just as bad as the old S. 1: “In reality, the plan endorsed by Stacey Abrams is no compromise. It still subverts the First Amendment to supercharge cancel culture and the left’s name-and-shame campaign model. It takes redistricting away from state legislatures and hands it over to computers. And it still retains S. 1’s rotten core: an assault on the fundamental idea that states, not the federal government, should decide how to run their own elections.”….
(Excerpts from the Daily Torch)