Susan B Anthony Museum Objects to Trump Pardoning the Suffragette

Earlier this week, President Donald Trump issued a posthumous pardon for women’s rights leader ✊Susan B. Anthony but the museum dedicated to the late suffragette objected to the pardon, saying that she wouldn’t have wanted to be pardoned.

Shortly after Trump’s pardon, the Susan B Anthony Museum published a note titled, “Objection! Mr. President, ✊Susan B. Anthony must decline your offer of a pardon today.”

In the note, ✊Susan B. Anthony Museum president Deborah L. Hughes said, “Anthony wrote in her diary in 1873 that her trial for voting was ‘The greatest outrage History ever witnessed.’ She was not allowed to speak as a witness in her own defense, because she was a woman. At the conclusion of arguments, Judge Hunt dismissed the jury and pronounced her guilty. She was outraged to be denied a trial by jury. She proclaimed, ‘I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty.’ To pay would have been to validate the proceedings. To pardon ✊Susan B. Anthony does the same.”

Hughes said that those seeking to honor Susan B Anthony, should adopt “a clear stance against any form of voter suppression.”