President Donald Trump has stated that he will grant a posthumous pardon to Susan B Anthony, a pioneer of female voting rights.
Mr. Trump announced the news on Tuesday, marking the centenary of the 19th Amendment. Which granted American women the right to vote. Trump said: “She was never pardoned. Did it take so long?”
Susan B Anthony was arrested in 1872 after voting illegally:
Later, she was ruled by an all-male jury to vote illegally in her hometown of New York State. Anthony died 14 years before ratifying the 19th Amendment on August 18, 1920.
What will happen next?
Trump and his wife Melania Trump held an event at the White House, and he also signed a declaration commemorating the 100th anniversary of the 19th amendment.
Last week, Mr. Trump announced his support for the establishment of a memorial in Washington, D.C. to commemorate women known as women senators who demanded the right to vote.
He said: “Women dominate the United States-I think we can say it very strongly.”
He pointed out that there is now a record number of women in Congress. Mr. Trump made the announcement when he was trying to win over female voters in the suburbs. Opinion polls showed that female voters have stayed away from him since 2016.
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Trump’s pardon soon sparked controversy. A few hours after the announcement, New York State Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul tweeted:
“As the highest-elected woman in New York and representing the legacy of Susan B Anthony, we Ask Trump to revoke the pardon”.
Who is Susan B Anthony?
Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and activist for women’s rights. Plays a pivotal role in sports. She was born into a Quaker family committed to social equality and collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17. In 1856, she became a New York State agent of the American Anti-Slavery Association.
Anthony was convicted of a widely publicized trial for allegedly voting illegally as a woman, and was fined $100 by a judge in his hometown of Rochester, New York.
In a speech in court, she condemned the government for prohibiting women from voting and vowed to never pay a penny.
Her arrest attracted the attention of the voting equality movement and helped her enter the national stage. She went on to merge the two largest electoral groups in the country, and went to the United States to give speeches and hold rallies.
“She is proud that her arrest has drawn people’s attention to women’s rights and has never paid her a fine. Let her rest in peace.”
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In recent years, women have commemorated her legacy by visiting Rochester’s tombstone on Election Day in November. In the 2016 campaign between Hillary Clinton and Trump, thousands of candidates were Hillary Clinton, who was the first female presidential candidate of a major party people.
According to AP News, after the 2018 mid-term competition, dozens of people posted “I vote” stickers on their tombstones. Her legacy has also become increasingly divided, with some critics saying that she marginalized African American women’s voting supporters.
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Although her position on abortion is controversial, a well-known anti-abortion lobby group named her business after her.
The anti-abortion president Susan B Anthony List was invited to the White House ceremony on Tuesday, which also included other prominent conservatives.
Who else did Mr. Trump pardon?
This will be the 26th time in Trump’s presidency. Recently, he commuted his long-time ally Roger Stone by 40 months, who was convicted in 2019 of lying to Congress and witnessing tampering.
In February of this year, he commuted the prison sentence of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. He was convicted of trying to sell the Senate seat of Barack Obama, and was found guilty when he left the presidency.
On August 18, 2020, President Donald Trump stated that he would pardon Anthony for the arrest and killing of Anthony after his arrest in 1872 when women were still prohibited from voting. The announcement was announced on the 100th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving women the right to vote.
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