Pelosi Signals Openness To Filibuster Carveout For Voting Rights

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Sunday signaled openness to reforming the filibuster to protect voting rights after President Biden suggested he might be open to eliminating the procedure entirely.

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During a CNN town hall last week, the President was asked whether he would entertain the notion of doing away with the filibuster on voting rights. Biden replied "and maybe more." The President's comments supporting potential changes to the filibuster were issued a day after Senate Republicans blocked Democrats' voting rights bill, which prevented it from getting a floor debate before the final vote.

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Appearing on CNN, Pelosi was asked whether she agrees with the President on getting rid of the filibuster to push policy proposals forward.

The House speaker signaled that reforming the filibuster is crucial to protect voting rights.

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"The most important vote right now in the Congress of the United States is the vote to respect the sanctity of the vote, the fundamental basis of our democracy," Pelosi said. "If there were one vote that (reforming) the filibuster could enable to go forward, that would be the vote."

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"And enable so much more because we're talking about stopping the suppression of the vote and the nullification of the elections. We're talking about redistricting, a way that is fair — may not benefit Democrats, but it might open up some of these Republican seats. It talks about stopping the big, dark, crushing special-interest money and empowers the grassroots," Pelosi continued.

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After expressing disappointment over the unsuccessful passage last week of the Freedom to Vote Act, which is the newest iteration of the For the People Act that was modified to get filibuster-loyalist Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) on board, Pelosi once again stressed that voting rights legislation is "fundamental to our democracy."

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Pelosi then proceeded to swipe at former President Trump and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) by pointing out that Republicans killed the filibuster to appoint three Supreme Court justices when they were the majority.

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"Mind you, just to remind, when what's his name was President and the Republicans were in power, Mitch McConnell pulled back the filibuster to enable, with simple majorities, three justices to go to the Supreme Court for life," Pelosi said. "You would think that they could pull it back for the American people to have the vote."

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Shortly after Senate Republicans filibustered Democrats' voting rights bill last week, most Democrats turned their focus to addressing the filibuster after Manchin's insistence that the bill garnered bipartisan support proved fruitless.

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Prior to the voting rights bill getting blocked last week, House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) earlier this month called on the Senate to do away with the filibuster for voting rights, saying that Manchin will likely have to come around to a filibuster carveout to push the new voting rights bill forward.

"I think he's going to have to relent on the filibuster," Clyburn said. "Nobody's asking him to give up the filibuster. We're saying treat the voting rights and constitutional rights when it comes to the filibuster the same way you treat the budget."

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CNN analyst says Trump CPAC speech sounded like HITLER, and scripted by PUTIN


CNN analyst says Trump CPAC speech sounded like HITLER, and scripted by PUTIN

CNN went wayyy over the top today in responding to Trump’s CPAC speech, with this comparison to Hitler. Cuz we can’t get enough of that and it definitely persuades people, right?

Watch below:

Transcript from Mediaite:
Vinograd said on CNN this afternoon, “His statement makes me sick, on a personal level, preserving your heritage, reclaiming our heritage, that sounds a lot like a certain leader that killed members of my family and about six million other Jews in the 1940s.”
OK then.
“By the way, this whole CPAC speech, how many pieces, parts of President Putin’s to-do list was President Trump trying to accomplish today? He denigrated our institutions, the Department of Justice and U.S. Congress, he spread misinformation and conspiracy theories, he undermined the credibility of several of our institutions, he sewed divisions, he sewed confusion, he was speaking to his base but he was also saying things that really looked like Vladimir Putin scripted his speech. So it helped him perhaps with his base, and politically, while at the same time, making Russia’s job a lot easier.”
Well, yeah. But it’s not illegal to have a foreign policy that aligns up with Putin’s global stratagems. And people voted for it. So make your case that he’s wrong, argue your side, don’t just whine about what has been pretty obvious since before the presidential election.