Some Democrats, representing people of color long voiceless in national debate, described the impeachment fight as a question of minority rights.
When the House of Representatives voted Wednesday night to impeach President Trump, the arguments in favor included voices never heard in previous impeachment debates.,” declared Democratic Rep. Adriano Espaillat, speaking in the Spanish that is a dominant language in his Harlem district of New York. “No one is above the law.”
“If you think I exaggerate in warning our elections can be undermined, I urge you to come down to Georgia, find a black man or woman of a certain age, and they’ll tell you the danger is real,” declared Rep. Hank Johnson .“And they’ll tell you of brave Americans, patriots willing to risk far more than a political career who marched and struggled and sometimes died so that we could have fair and free elections,” he added. “We are not asked to possess even a fraction of their courage.
He noted the years — 1961, 1963 and 1965 — when he helped lead marches to Washington to press demands for civil rights, and ultimately to witness President Lyndon Johnson sign a landmark bill expanding voting rights.
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