Republicans are carrying out a “legislative continuation” of last year’s siege of the U.S. Capitol, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi charged Sunday.
Passing laws making it harder to vote based on false claims the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump is an attack on democracy like the Jan. 6, 2021 assault, the California Democrat said.
“What the Republicans are doing across the country is really a legislative continuation of what they did on Jan. 6, which is to undermine our democracy, to undermine the integrity of our elections, to undermine the voting power, which is the essence of a democracy,” she said on CBS News’ “Face the Nation.”
Last week marked one year since raging Trump supporters stormed the Capitol, where lawmakers were certifying the results of the November 2020 election won by President Biden.
In March, House Democrats passed a bill that restricted partisan gerrymandering, created public matching funds for elections and laid out other steps to protect voting rights.
But in the face of strong Republican opposition in the Senate, Democrats have pared down the legislation, known as the Freedom to Vote Act.
The change was aimed not so much at winning over the GOP but at persuading moderate Democrats that the Senate should get rid of the filibuster, some observers have noted.
“What is important right now is how we protect and defend the Constitution and the voting rights,” Pelosi said.
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