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The same that she did when she refused the National Guard prior to January 6, and refused other offers of beefed-up protection prior to January 6.
She's now refusing to allow a floor vote on a bill that unanimously passed the Senate to offer greater protection for Supreme Court Justices.
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She's now refusing to allow a floor vote on a bill that unanimously passed the Senate to offer greater protection for Supreme Court Justices.
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But House speaker Nancy Pelosi still hasn’t brought the bill up for a vote, and the House isn’t scheduled to hold floor votes again until June 7.
Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, the second-ranking Democrat in the Senate who has called protests outside the justices’ homes “reprehensible,” told CNN on Thursday that he’s “very much” concerned that Pelosi has chosen not to hold a vote on the Senate-passed bill:
The House Democrats’ stated reason for holding up the bill — that they want to add funding for clerks and staff — is preposterous. It doesn’t take long to write a few lines of legislative text, and Pelosi had plenty of time to hold meaningless show votes this week.
A much more plausible reason why House Democrats are dragging their feet is that they are responding to progressive activists who expressed frustration when the Senate unanimously passed the bill to protect the Supreme Court justices’ families on May 9.
The House Democrats’ stated reason for holding up the bill — that they want to add funding for clerks and staff — is preposterous. It doesn’t take long to write a few lines of legislative text, and Pelosi had plenty of time to hold meaningless show votes this week.
A much more plausible reason why House Democrats are dragging their feet is that they are responding to progressive activists who expressed frustration when the Senate unanimously passed the bill to protect the Supreme Court justices’ families on May 9.
But House speaker Nancy Pelosi still hasn’t brought the bill up for a vote, and the House isn’t scheduled to hold floor votes again until June 7.
Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, the second-ranking Democrat in the Senate who has called protests outside the justices’ homes “reprehensible,” told CNN on Thursday that he’s “very much” concerned that Pelosi has chosen not to hold a vote on the Senate-passed bill:
The House Democrats’ stated reason for holding up the bill — that they want to add funding for clerks and staff — is preposterous. It doesn’t take long to write a few lines of legislative text, and Pelosi had plenty of time to hold meaningless show votes this week.
A much more plausible reason why House Democrats are dragging their feet is that they are responding to progressive activists who expressed frustration when the Senate unanimously passed the bill to protect the Supreme Court justices’ families on May 9.
The House Democrats’ stated reason for holding up the bill — that they want to add funding for clerks and staff — is preposterous. It doesn’t take long to write a few lines of legislative text, and Pelosi had plenty of time to hold meaningless show votes this week.
A much more plausible reason why House Democrats are dragging their feet is that they are responding to progressive activists who expressed frustration when the Senate unanimously passed the bill to protect the Supreme Court justices’ families on May 9.
Top Senate Dem ‘Very Much’ Concerned Pelosi Hasn’t Passed Bill to Protect Families of Supreme Court Justices | National Review
The House Democrats’ stated reason for holding up the bill passed to protect SCOTUS justices and their families is preposterous.