Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D‒N.Y., this month blamed Republicans for preventing Congress from enacting legislation that would make it easier for state-licensed marijuana businesses to access financial services. Yet Schumer himself has played a leading role in blocking the SAFE Banking Act, which passed the House last year with support from 106 Republicans and has bipartisan backing in the Senate.
Schumer, who insisted that his own marijuana bill take priority and warned that approving the SAFE Banking Act would make federal legalization harder, wants reformers to forget that history of obstruction. Schumer’s striking attempt to dodge responsibility for his own actions easily qualifies him for my annual review of the year’s highlights in blame shifting. Here are the rest.
