the most shockingly aggressive rescue bill of my lifetime is very likely to be signed into law. saturday after an all-night session, senate democrats passed the $1.9 trillion covid relief package in a strict party line vote. because senators made some changes to the bill, it now has to go back to the democratic controlled house which is expected to pass the identical senate version this week, possibly as early as tomorrow. so the bill would then go to the president, president biden for his signature. we re in the early part of march. not the 100-day marker yet. this is an incredible victory for both the country, the biden administrationings the democratic party which held together. they didn t get a vote in either house. they tried to break the party apart. that s bryns did by forcing tough votes on amendments and arguing against the bill in public. democrats won. and as a result, a lot of people s lives are going to get better. by passing this plan we would have delivered
run, still liability for everything he did while he was in office. didn t get away with anything yet. yet. we have a criminal justice system in this country. we have civil litigation. and former presidents are not immunity from being accountability by either one. didn t get away with anything yet. yet. we have a criminal justice in system in this country. that was michl mcconnell s argument for voting not to convict trump in a second the well, now that the january 6th criminal prosecutions are regularly producing courtroom discussions between defrts and judges as to whether or not the people who also caused the attack are now going to be charged, now that the
i mean, we ve been talking about this for three years now. most people that look at this sli seriously know that theft capability to interfere in our elections. they may have the intention. we don t know that yet. and we have done almost nothing, i want to underscore that, almost nothing to enhance the resilience of our electoral infrastructure, to enhance our ability to detect disinformation on the platforms. and i want to remind everybody, it is july 2019. and we are still talking about getting bills out of various committees. michl mcconnell has done next to nothing to enhance our electoral security. and i just think that that is a crying shame. seems that we re playing politics with our election security especially when you hear the congressman say that there are reasons why he voted against the election security bill last month. matt, you ve been writing about this, and you point out an instant where robert mueller
still being drafted. michl mcconnell has been a little bit in both places about whether he is going to try to make this happen and where it is as a priority. the president supporting it is a huge deal. this helps give it momentum and gives cover to republicans and conservatives who have been concerned about supporting a measure like this and him helping move this forward is a significant moment and it is important to note. if this passes, this would allow judges to downwardly depart from certain sentences in a way they hadn t been able to before. this really is aimed at nonviolent offenders aimed at first offenders as opposed to repeat offenders. it is aimed, except in one category. it is not aimed as sex offenders or violent offenders. but what it is seen as doing is rectifying some of what is widely considered at this point as the damage caused by the 1994 crime bill, which disproportionately impacted