Senate Republicans changed the name of the Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights, the Huffington Post reported on Friday.
When Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA), the new chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, announced the new chairs for the six Judiciary subcommittees, he referred to the subcommittee as the Subcommittee on the Constitution.
Sen. John Cornyn’s (R-TX) office confirmed to the Huffington Post that Republicans removed “Civil Rights and Human Rights” from the subcommittee name.
“We changed the name because the Constitution covers our most basic rights, including civil and human rights,” Cornyn spokeswoman Megan Mitchell told the Huffington Post. “We will focus on these rights, along with other issues that fall under the broader umbrella of the Constitution.”
Cornyn, the Senate Majority Whip, will chair the subcommittee.
“Senators swear an oath to support and defend the U.S. Constitution, and I take that sacred responsibility seriously,” Cornyn said in a statement. “The Constitution is the foundation of the freedoms and values we hold dear, yet for six years President Obama has treated it as an afterthought. It is the highest of laws and must be defended as such.”
I hate these fascists. I really do.
So, the subcommittee that used to work on things like, oh, say, vote suppression and pay equity and maybe even the odd matter arising under the Genocide Convention will now spend the next two years investigating the ongoing war on white people, considering the sacred right of nullification and bringing to light the truth behind the paranoid ravings posted on websites frequented by heavily armed crazy old racist white guys.
Hashtag Outreach.
I agree with your reaction. While a name may be largely symbolic, this is a clear indication of their intentions moving forward. How did voters ever support legislators who will gleefully tamper with the right to vote?
Don’t these people even think about the optics? Or are they so drunk on their own power that they figure they can get away with whatever they want? I guess we should be thankful they aren’t being smart about it…if they were they’d be a lot more sneaky as they go about undermining our rights.
The only optics they care about are the ones the Tea Partiers see, you know the real Americans.