Political Quotes

“Forbidding voter registration for run-off elections, driving down the early vote period during divisive runoffs to drive up lines at majority Black precincts. As he used to say, John Lewis didn't give a little blood on that bridge that day so that Black Georgians would have to wait eight times longer to vote than White Georgians. John Lewis didn't give a little bit of blood on that bridge that day so that State legislatures across this country could pass legislation surgically targeted to make it harder for some people to vote, all for partisan power. In the State of Georgia, where now partisan election officials can step in and throw out locally elected election boards to change who can vote and where they can vote--this, in the aftermath of a well-known incident when the former President of the United States threatened Georgia's secretary of state with criminal prosecution if he didn't ``find 11,000 votes'' that were never cast for Donald Trump. The facts of the former President's efforts to seize reelection, despite his defeat, are well-known. He and his lieutenants mounted an unprecedented campaign to retain power based on a torrent of lies that have grievously wounded public confidence in our elections. And it was only thanks to the integrity of our laws and our courts and principled election officials and the will of Congress, the will of this Senate, to ensure the peaceful transition of power in the face of a violent assault on the U.S.…”