{"id":1228083,"date":"2022-01-20T16:52:59","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T21:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1228083"},"modified":"2022-01-20T16:53:06","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T21:53:06","slug":"james-clyburn-stokes-doubt-about-upcoming-elections-if-voting-legislation-not-passed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/james-clyburn-stokes-doubt-about-upcoming-elections-if-voting-legislation-not-passed\/","title":{"rendered":"James Clyburn Stokes Doubt About Upcoming Elections If Voting Legislation Not Passed"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjames-clyburn-stokes-doubt-about-upcoming-elections-if-voting-legislation-not-passed%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1228083&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Majority Whip James Clyburn said Thursday while on CNN that the upcoming midterms will not be legitimate if \u201cvoting rights\u201d aren\u2019t passed, echoing a similar sentiment made by President Joe Biden Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you agree with what he said in that press conference, are you concerned that without these voting rights bills the election results won\u2019t be legitimate?\u201d CNN host Kasie Hunt asked.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This AM, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WhipClyburn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WhipClyburn<\/a> told <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kasie?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@kasie<\/a> on CNN that he was similarly concerned.<\/p>\n<p>CNN: \u201cYou concerned that without these voting rights bills the election results won\u2019t be legitimate?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clyburn: \u201cI\u2019m absolutely concerned about that.\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rhtXFNjnr2\">pic.twitter.com\/rhtXFNjnr2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Philip Melanchthon Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PhilipWegmann\/status\/1484175085846024194?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 20, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m absolutely concerned about that,\u201d Clyburn, a Democratic Rep. representing South Carolina\u2019s 6th District said. \u201cLet me remind the audience, that in 1965 at the time of the advent of the Voting Rights Act, only 3% of African Americans in Alabama were registered to vote. We come in with the 1965 Voting Rights Act and look what we have now. Nine years ago the Supreme Court took direct aim at that act in Shelby v. Holder and got rid of preclearance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Under Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, a formula determined that jurisdictions needed preclearance from the federal government in order to change their election rules depending on whether the jurisdiction had a history of race-based discrimination against voters. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/14\/nichols-voting-rights-historic-assault-democracy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: NICHOLS: Voting Rights Are Under Historic Assault, Democracy Is At Stake)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court later struck down the formula in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/crt\/about-section-5-voting-rights-act#:~:text=On%20June%2025%2C%202013%2C%20the,570%20U.S.%20529%20(2013).\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">5-4<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/12pdf\/12-96_6k47.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">decision,<\/a> ruling the formula was outdated.<\/p>\n<p>Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/19\/joe-biden-election-results-midterms-voting-bills\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">refused to outright say<\/a> Wednesday whether the upcoming election results would be legitimate if his <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/19\/biden-press-conference-white-house-elections-agenda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">voting bills<\/a> don\u2019t pass. The Biden administration is pushing for the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which would give more federal control over state election laws. When asked whether he believes the upcoming election would be fair without their passage, Biden said it \u201cdepends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt all depends on whether or not we\u2019re able to make the case to the American people that some of this is being set up to try and alter the outcome of the election,\u201d Biden said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s one thing \u2013 look, maybe I\u2019m just being too much of an optimist. Remember how we thought not that many people were going to show up to vote in the middle of a pandemic? We had the highest voter turnout in the history of the United States of America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added efforts to ensure the election is free and fair will be \u201cdifficult\u201d but he still hopes to pass his legislation and said the election could \u201ceasily be illegitimate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The push to pass the legislation comes amid unfounded claims that Georgia\u2019s new election laws, which makes voter ID a requirement and expands early voting in many counties among other changes, are \u201cJim Crow in the 21st century.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>White House press secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/20\/white-house-cleans-up-joe-biden-comments-ukraine-midterm-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jen Psaki<\/a> later tried to walk back Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/20\/kamala-harris-joe-biden-midterm-elections-legitimate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">comments<\/a>, claiming the president was \u201cexplaining that the results would be illegitimate if states do what the former president [Donald Trump] asked them to do after the 2020 election: toss out ballots and overturn results after the fact.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Majority Whip James Clyburn said Thursday while on CNN that the upcoming midterms will not be legitimate if \u201cvoting rights\u201d aren\u2019t passed, echoing a similar sentiment made by President Joe &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1228083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1228083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}