Kentucky GOP blocks governor from making voting safe during pandemic

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By Emily Singer -February 3, 2021 4:55 PM

Gov. Andy Beshear has filed suit against Kentucky House and Senate leadership to have their moves declared unconstitutional.

Kentucky's GOP-controlled Legislature on Tuesday stripped the state's Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear of his power to expand access to voting by mail in emergency situations such as the COVID-19 pandemic in the latest move by Republicans to restrict access to the ballot box.

Beshear had vetoed S.B. 1, a bill introduced in the state Senate by Republicans in late January that limited his ability to issue emergency executive orders and barred him from changing election procedures during an emergency. But the Republican-controlled Legislature overrode the veto, officially eliminating Beshear's ability to increase access to mail-in ballots, the Louisville Courier Journal reported.

Beshear has filed a lawsuit in state court against Attorney General Daniel Cameron and the leaders of the House and Senate seeking to have S.B. 1 and other bills passed by the Legislature ruled unconstitutional, claiming that "if allowed to take effect [they] will cause significant harm to the Governor’s constitutional duty to respond [to] COVID-19 and the overall public health during the pandemic."

Published with permission of The American Independent Foundation.

https://americanindependent.com/kentucky-governor-andy-beshear-senate-house-bills-lawsuit-covid-19-voting-emergency-mail/

Republicans are fascists its that simple..................

[Hermit-The-Prog]

1. Covid-19 is not the only disease we Kentuckians are suffering from. We need help with the GQP.

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2. Repukes pulled this shit in Wisconsin too.

Stripping our Democrat governor of power AFTER he beat Scott Walker, who was given carte blanche to pull any sort of shit he wanted.

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3. A big fat K&R!

The whole damn republican party is complicit in this corrupt behavior.