Comments by "KesArt" (@kesart8378) on "Sen. Cory Booker on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" | full interview" video.

  1. Surely Margaret Brennan knows that when a congressperson "walks away" from formal talks on a particular subject it does not mean that said congressperson has ceased discussing said subject with congressional colleagues.
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  2.  @jillfeatherman5523  With respect, Republicans held the Senate during the time period to which you refer. Thus, it was the province of Mitch McConnell, not Chuck Schumer, to put the bill to a vote, which he did...and it was voted down by Democrats, as well as a handful of Republicans, which stopped passage of the bill. As for the reasons that Democrats cited for opposing the bill, chief among them was that they felt that it did "not go far enough." Senator Scott's bill did not mandate the elimination of choke holds, nor did it end qualified immunity for individual police officers, and it did not demand a cessation of the transfer of excess weapons from the American military to municipal police departments. And though Democrats urged McConnell to let the bill be amended in committee before being sent to the floor, he refused, thus blocking the addition of any amendments. Furthermore, the fact that both the NAACP and the ACLU opposed Scott's bill did not help its chances of garnering Democrats' votes, nor did the fact that the Democrat led House of Representatives had already passed a tougher crime and justice bill. So matters are not as simple as one might think were one to rely solely on Republicans' account of the demise of Tim Scott's "JUSTICE" bill. Cheers https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/06/17/george-floyd-senate-gop-introduce-police-reform-bill/3202254001/ https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/apr/30/tim-scott/sen-tim-scott-says-democrats-blocked-his-police-re/ https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/24/how-police-reform-collapsed-in-the-senate-338332
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