The Senate Judiciary committee is holding its First Committee on Voting Rights since the democrats last controlled the senate. I had a series of hearings about a wave of Voter Suppression laws under consideration across the country. Sadly, the situation is worse today. I would like to start with a video showing how far the fight for democracy has, and the progress we have yet to make. Those who founded our country and you that freedom would be secure only if each generation fought to renew and to renew it. Americans of every race and color have worked to build widened opportunities. Now our generation has been called on to continue the unending search for justice within our own borders. We can understand how this all happened. We believe that all men are entitled to the blessings of liberty. We hold these truths to be selfevident, that all men are created equal. Yet millions are being deprived of those blessings. Legislative measures limiting Ballot Access moving through 47 statehouses
Included poll tax, other barriers to the ballot box. Not surprisingly black electoral participation dropped. In 1880 for example black voter turnout was 81 in north carolina. By 1912, a few years after the state amended its constitution to include the poll tax, and the grandfather clause black voter turnout had dropped to just 1 the states were able to destroy black volter participation by violating the spirit and intent of the 15th amendment while adhering to the letter of the constitution. They did so by deploying race neutral language that used the legacy of slavery as a approximatery for race. The poll tax, for example, required all voters to pay a fee to cast a ballot. But the poll tax was prey on the endemic poverty created by centuries of unpaid labor, followed by the post civil war codes and sharecropping. The tax because of the poverty, it amounted to black laborers paying in 1900 the equivalent of 239 in 2020 to vote. Similarly, the literacy test which required a voter to rea
Same strategies in 2014 the party to sweeping victory in 2016, prior to the mustsee republican primary debate sean worked on behalf of the party to restructure the base format trading more informative and fair debates. Seans efforts at the rncs chief strategist and medications director landed him a spot in pr weeks power 50 list for2016. The last join us at the Reagan Library in july 2018 his book the breathing, politics, the press and president. He had a virtual discussion about his brandnew book leading america examines the upward battle instrument is half to face the media, hollywood, academia and big tech. We now invite you to enjoy our Virtual Program coming to you from our air force one Leadership Academy oval office with sean spicer and reaganfoundation Institute Executive director john hi bush. Sean spicer, it is great to have you with us at the Reagan Library and obviously all socially distance and a long way awaybut congratulations, really great book. I had a lot offun readin
The Public Interest Legal Foundation is dedicated to protecting the integrity of our elections and to serve as a counter to the marriott leftist groups that are very wellfunded who are filing lawsuits all over the country to try to upend the election laws of the states and just trying to serve as a balance and a counter to the increasing demands of leftist groups to change our elections ,rocess and really to eliminate their goal appears to be to eliminate all the safeguard that have been put in place in the early part of the 20th century to shift the responsibility for conducting a shins to the states from the Political Parties and to protect the right of individuals to vote, have secret ballots, to not be intimidated or harassed in voting. Our foundation is dedicated to trying to get Election Officials to clean their terminals so that are on thegible rules and to ensure that the outtion laws are carried and that every citizen who is eligible vote is able to vote with the confidence th
Central, 202 7488000. Mountain and pacific, 202 7488001. You can text us. That line is 202 7488003. Are cspanwj. Post, as caseson near 5 million, trump digs in on schools reopening. They write the administration is sticking by its view that schools must reopen on time and , as mississippis conservative governor reversed course to delay school and make students all wear masks. The yuan chief warned that the world faces a generational catastrophe because of School Closures. Urgedideo message, he countries to suppress the virus sufficiently to allow schools to reopen, calling the pandemic the largest disruption to education ever. A policy brief alongside this containing the virus the most significant step governments can take toward grouping schools. We are learning a lot from governors about state plans and what localities in those states might do. The governor of texas, greg abbott, held a news conference. The Texas Tribune reports that local School Officials know best whether they shou