Manchin's Deception Preserves Filibuster, Destroys Legislative Democracy
By Dick Morris
Wednesday, 23 June 2021 03:44 PM
Current | Bio | Archive
Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., has been masquerading as a centrist, intent on preserving the filibuster to restore bipartisanship to Washington. But the fact is that this has been a subterfuge all along to disguise the fact that he is intent on passing the core of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's proposals to deform our voting system.
He gave away the game when he announced that he was supporting HR 1 with ''modifications.'' The specific provisions he will agree to or not agree to are not as important as his support for a fundamental transformation of elections in America from state regulation to federal regulation by the president, the Department of Justice and his appointed attorney general.
Our Founding Fathers were quite deliberate in vesting the power to oversee elections for Congress in the state legislatures. They intended that provision as a check and balance against federal usurpation of state democracies and their replacement by a system of federal autocracy.
...
READ MORE: https://www.newsmax.com/morris/joe-manchin-west-virginia/2021/06/23/id/1026180/