Chuck Schumer is promising that “everything is on the table” to pass voting rights legislation—but the electoral clock is ticking.
that it is essential to the democratic process and maintaining that compromise, even on the issue of voting rights, is possible. Viewing the House-passed bill as overly “broad,” Manchin and his colleagueinstead last month for the bipartisan reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. That would be a narrower piece of legislation, though one supposes it would be better than nothing.
There have been some hopeful stands: States that have passed anti-voting laws have been slapped with lawsuits, and Texas Democratsa state disenfranchisement bill with a dramatic Sunday night walkout. The White House, meanwhile, has held that Biden and the Democrats will be able to turn out their base and win in the upcoming cycles, regardless of the rules Republicans put in place.
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