'We don't need even more photo ops,' says the co-founder of BlackVotersMtr. 'We need action.'
late Monday that Sinema"reiterated her opposition in a virtual lunch last week with other Democratic senators."made an offer
to his Republican counterpart, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell : If the GOP agrees to suspend the filibuster rule and hold votes on Democratic voting rights bills at a simple-majority threshold, Democrats will allow votes on Republican priorities at that same threshold. "The Republican leader seems to want to place a bunch of gotcha bills on the legislative calendar that he thinks would be tough votes for Democrats to take as some kind of payback for pursuing legislation to protect the sacred right to vote," Schumer said in a floor speech on Monday."Well, we Democrats aren't afraid of these votes.
Biden's high-profile speech in Atlanta on Tuesday will come at what advocates see as a make-or-break moment for voting rights heading into the pivotal 2022 midterms, in whichMonday that"policies in the Freedom to Vote Act such as same-day registration, no-excuse absentee voting, and two weeks of early voting could still be implemented in 2022—and the number of states that quickly expanded voting options during the pandemic provides a model for how it could be done.
that has marked the fight over voting rights for the past year," Berman added."Republicans at the state level have passed a slew of anti-democracy measures through simple majority, party-line votes, but by stubbornly supporting the filibuster Democratic Sens.
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