While he'd long been a leading voting rights supporter - - and, seriously, shouldn't every lawmaker be its champion? - - Sensenbrenner and every GOP House member except one didn't like the way Democrats wanted to help make American ballot box access a real thing.
On, Wisconsin.
On Friday, Republicans accused the Voting Rights Advancement Act of doing more than just reinstating [protections overturned by the US Supreme Court], contending the bill constituted broad federal overreach of states’ rights.
GOP lawmakers also complained the bill prohibited states from implementing voter ID laws and would require states to get permission before putting in place very specific election procedures that have a history of being used for discriminatory practices — even if the procedures weren’t intended to be discriminatory.And that's how you wrap up 22 terms in Congress before making way for Scott Fitzgerald, another booster of voter ID, blatant gerrymandering and various other Republican special-interest orthodoxies.
On, Wisconsin.
