.MaddowBlog: Even if Democrats grudgingly accepted Sen. Manchin's pitch as the party's new plan on voting rights, could it actually pass?
saying he would not vote for S.1. Though the senator didn't identify any substantive problems with the legislation, he nevertheless denounced the bill as"partisan."
Broadly speaking, there are two parallel conversations unfolding at the same time. The first focuses on voting-rights policy, the second focuses on legislative procedure. Is this the sort of package Democrats -- and democrats -- can get behind? Almost certainly yes. Rick Hasen, a leading election-law expert at UC–Irvine, wroteyesterday arguing, that Manchin's counteroffer"is pretty, pretty good" and"Democrats should grab it." Georgia's Stacey Abrams said she would"All of which leads us to the other conversation over congressional procedures.
Manchin scheduled a meeting last night with eight GOP senators to discuss the issue, which only reinforced the scope of the problem: even if the West Virginian were to somehow persuade each member of the octet -- a profoundly unlikely scenario -- this still wouldn't be enough to overcome a Republican filibuster.
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