What to Expect at Senate Panels Hearing on Election-Integrity Law Cast as Jim Crow

Published: April 20, 2021, 7 a.m.

b"The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing Tuesday to discuss a purported \\u201cassault on the right to vote.\\u201d\\xa0\\nThe hearing, dubbed \\u201cJim Crow 2021: The Latest Assault on the Right to Vote,\\u201d comes as the far left continues to criticize Georgia's new election-integrity law.\\nStacey Abrams, the Democrat who lost the 2018 race for governor of Georgia and the founder of Fair Fight Action, and Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., are scheduled to testify at the hearing.\\xa0\\nHans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow in the Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation, joins \\u201cThe Daily Signal Podcast\\u201d to explain what to expect at Tuesday\\u2019s committee hearing.\\xa0The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.\\xa0\\nVon Spakovsky also unpacks the arguments for and against Georgia\\u2019s new election-integrity law, and explains why the bill should not be likened to Jim Crow laws.\\xa0\\nWe also cover these stories:\\xa0\\n\\nLawyers deliver closing arguments in the final day of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin trial in the death of George Floyd.\\n\\nFlorida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs anti-rioting legislation into law.\\xa0\\n\\n\\xa0The Biden administration orders Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection to stop using the terms \\u201cillegal alien\\u201d and \\u201cassimilation.\\u201d\\n\\n\\nEnjoy the show!\\n Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information."