Senate Democrats are today holding a hearing entitle
‘Jim Crow 2021: The Latest Assault on the Right to Vote’ in an effort to try and cast Republicans as racist for supporting new election laws around the country, specifically in Georgia.
But Ted Cruz, realizing the incredible irony of this moment, decided to remind Democrats that it was their own fellow Democrats who created Jim Crow laws in the first place:
Impressive candor for Senate Dems to hold a hearing on the history of Jim Crow laws.
– Bull Connor
– George Wallace
ALL Democrats.
Dems wrote Jim Crow. Sadly, they’ve got a lot of expertise in bigotry & discrimination. https://t.co/4ckhRXrSCw
On the legacy of Jim Crow, Ted Cruz picks the wrong partisan fight
If Ted Cruz really wants to debate which party deserves to be seen as champions of civil rights, he may be disappointed where the discussion ends up.
Sen. Ted Cruz speaks to members of the media during the fifth day of the impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump on Feb. 13, 2021.Erin Scott / Reuters
April 19, 2021, 6:32 PM UTC
BySteve Benen
The Democratic-led Senate Judiciary Committee will hold an important hearing tomorrow: Jim Crow 2021: The Latest Assault on the Right to Vote. Among the witnesses will be Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), former state Sen. Stacey Abrams (D-Ga.), and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund s Sherrilyn Ifill.
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Republicans like Tucker Carlson love to hate cancel culture. Or as we used to call it, “consequences.” By dint of personality and profession, I’m pretty close to a free speech absolutist. I imagine most writers are. Restraints on artistic or literary expression shouldn’t be dictated by some vague notion of cultural acceptability. We wouldn’t be a better society if we were still smuggling copies of Lady Chatterley’s Lover instead of buying them on Amazon. James Madison didn’t write the First Amendment with erotica in mind. He wanted to prevent the government from squelching dissent or, as he originally worded it, to ensure that people “shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, to write, or to publish their sentiments; and the freedom of the press, as one of the great bulwarks of liberty, shall be inviolable.”