Chuck Schumer under fire after brazenly calling voter ID 'Jim Crow 2.0'
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer faced backlash on Thursday after he doubled down on comparing voter ID legislation to "Jim Crow" policies.
Schumer has pushed back multiple times on a Republican plan to add the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act, which would require states to obtain proof of citizenship in person when people register to vote and remove noncitizens from voter rolls, to the spending package being debated in Congress.
"So, Leader Schumer, this talk about...