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12. just remember watching him manuever around the CRA extension vetoes

Reply to Arkansas Granny (Reply #11)

Thu Feb 4, 2021, 11:00 AM

Feb 2021

...and the oh-so-pious speeches from the former minister in favor of Thomas. (and I made a mistake: It was the Civil Rights Act extension Bush vetoed, not the VRA)

Btw, the CRA that advanced in 1991 provided "the right to trial by jury on discrimination claims (fixing a SC ruling limiting those rights) and introduced the possibility of emotional distress damages and limited the amount that a jury could award. It added provisions to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protections expanding the rights of women to sue and collect compensatory and punitive damages for sexual discrimination or harassment."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1991

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that interview was pretty remarkable to watch. NRaleighLiberal Feb 2021 #1

Yes, it was. Danforth says, and I agree, that we need a conservative party, but Arkansas Granny Feb 2021 #2

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TBH, I don't know a lot about Danforth. I just happened to see this interview Arkansas Granny Feb 2021 #4

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I think the conservatives in this country has always been this way. Alpeduez21 Feb 2021 #7

My dad was a Republican, but he was an Eisenhower Republican. He was disappointed in Nixon and he Arkansas Granny Feb 2021 #8

Repubs have been culling their ranks for decades... Wounded Bear Feb 2021 #9

Danforth traded his holdout vote to override Bush 5th veto of the extension of the Voting Rights Act bigtree Feb 2021 #10

Thanks for the info. I didn't know that about Danforth. Arkansas Granny Feb 2021 #11

just remember watching him manuever around the CRA extension vetoes bigtree Feb 2021 #12