Democratic Club of Camarillo
Check us out ...
  • Home
  • Upcoming Meetings
  • Event Tracker
  • President's Blog
  • Members' Blogs
  • Past Meetings
  • Contacts

GOP:  No More Civil Rights and Human Rights?

1/25/2015

0 Comments

 
By Carolyn Crandall
Picture

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."

My question is, if the Constitution already covers civil and human rights, then why have a subcommittee at all?

 

0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    These blogs are from members of the Democratic Club of Camarillo and include Letters to the Editor.

    Categories

    All

    Archives

    January 2018
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    March 2017
    January 2017
    September 2016
    February 2016
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014

    RSS Feed

Proudly powered by Weebly
Democratic Club of Camarillo
P.O. Box 348
Camarillo, CA  93011-0348

E-mail: DemClubofCam@gmail.com
Members Page
Calendar of Events
FPPC No. 981457

Website:  DemocraticClubofCamarillo.com
Picture