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New S. 1 "Compromise', Same Rotten Core

Statement

Date: June 17, 2021
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights Elections

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) issued the following statement regarding S.1:

"Senate Democrats seem to have reached a so-called "compromise" election takeover among themselves. 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."


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