House Democrats have voted to keep funding the PATRIOT Act in a flurry of partisan hypocrisy.
The spending bill was pushed through with not a single Republican vote.
The PATRIOT Act passed in 2001 during the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attack, but it was originally conceived by former Vice President Joe Biden as the 1995 Omnibus Counterterrorism Act; the law has long been regarded as a major infringement on civil liberties and a reactionary piece of legislation which has passed its time in the sun.
On her website, Ocasio-Cortez bemoans the creation of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency as part and parcel of the PATRIOT Act and its associated legislation.
"The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency was created in 2003, in the same suite of post-9/11 legislation as the Patriot Act and the Iraq War. Its founding was part of an unchecked expansion of executive powers that led to the widespread erosion of Americans' civil rights."
Every Democrat in the House of Representatives voted for the resolution bar two, who abstained.
For a group that touts itself as being the defender of civil rights, it was a bold decision for Democrats to publically place themselves in the firing line of those who see the PATRIOT Act as an invasive, right-wing Trojan Horse.
https://www.libertynation.com/dems-sneak-patriot-act-renewal-past-the-american-people/
The spending bill was pushed through with not a single Republican vote.
The PATRIOT Act passed in 2001 during the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attack, but it was originally conceived by former Vice President Joe Biden as the 1995 Omnibus Counterterrorism Act; the law has long been regarded as a major infringement on civil liberties and a reactionary piece of legislation which has passed its time in the sun.
On her website, Ocasio-Cortez bemoans the creation of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency as part and parcel of the PATRIOT Act and its associated legislation.
"The Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency was created in 2003, in the same suite of post-9/11 legislation as the Patriot Act and the Iraq War. Its founding was part of an unchecked expansion of executive powers that led to the widespread erosion of Americans' civil rights."
Every Democrat in the House of Representatives voted for the resolution bar two, who abstained.
For a group that touts itself as being the defender of civil rights, it was a bold decision for Democrats to publically place themselves in the firing line of those who see the PATRIOT Act as an invasive, right-wing Trojan Horse.
https://www.libertynation.com/dems-sneak-patriot-act-renewal-past-the-american-people/
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