Be careful what you ask for, senator.
Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy asked Stacey Abrams during a hearing Tuesday to give him a list of the provisions in Georgia’s new voting law she thought restricted voting rights. She obliged with a blistering and quite detailed rending of those objections. Watch below:
It was obvious Kennedy very quickly regretted his request. But despite his numerous interruptions, Ms. Abrams persisted and shared her list. Kennedy wasn’t the only lawmaker to get an education on what she sees as the racist intentions of Georgia’s voting law.
At the same hearing, Senator John Cornyn of Texas asked Abrams if the law was a “racist piece of legislation.” Her response?
“I think there are components of it that are indeed racist because they use racial animus as a means of targeting the behaviors of certain voters to eliminate their participant and limit their participation in elections.”
The exchange between the two continued. At one point, Cornyn mentioned that Georgia allows no-excuse absentee while liberal states such as New York and Massachusetts do not. He asked Abrams if she felt those states’ laws were racist.
She responded that those states must improve their laws, but that it’s how states target certain communities that make the laws racist.
“The state of Georgia targeted communities that used these resources for the first time to their benefit,” Abrams added, referring to the rise in mail-in voting in the 2020 election. She also said that the new voting law targeted behaviors used disproportionately by black voters.
