WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is asking the Justice Department to reconsider its decision not to pursue a civil rights investigation into the COVID-19 responses of government-run nursing homes in several states.
“The Civil Rights Division seems more focused on opposing common-sense voter integrity provisions than protecting the elderly. In fact, the Civil Rights Division was willing to pull out all the stops to file one such lawsuit in Georgia days before the Supreme Court issued a ruling squarely affirming two related Arizona voting provisions, but it seems to lack the resources to protect the most frail and vulnerable in states like New York.” Grassley wrote.