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For The People Act
voting rights
Oct. 20, 2021
Are Failed Voting-Rights Pushes Backfiring for Democrats? The party keeps trying to dramatize Republican obstruction of voting-rights legislation. But it is also drawing attention to its futility.
voting rights
Sept. 15, 2021
Surrendering to Republicans on Voting Rights Won’t Save Democracy Joe Manchin seems to think voting-rights reforms have to be bipartisan to work. But letting Republicans run wild won’t encourage them to compromise.
voting rights
Aug. 25, 2021
What Would the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act Actually Do? The legislation, which just passed the House again, would slow down state voter-suppression measures. But it is opposed by nearly all Republicans.
texas voting law
Aug. 12, 2021
Texas Republicans Outlast 15-Hour Filibuster to Advance Voting-Restriction Bill Texas Democrats took another dramatic, if futile, step against a voter-suppression bill in the Republican-controlled state.
State Democrats Should Go Anywhere But D.C. for Voting-Rights Lobbying Democratic state lawmakers are just reinforcing Republican talking points by running to Washington. How about pressing Sinema on her home turf?
supreme court
July 8, 2021
The Trouble the Supreme Court Is Making for Voters Voting-rights advocates are realizing that even if they prevail in Congress, the Court’s conservative majority is a major obstacle.
voting rights
July 8, 2021
Kamala Harris Unveils Another Fallback Strategy for Voting Rights Getting voters to the polls despite hostile state laws is a valuable Plan B for voting rights, not a mere a gesture after failure in Congress.
voting rights
June 29, 2021
Bipartisan Voting-Rights Legislation May Simply Be Impossible The pious hopes of Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema notwithstanding, we are in a historic moment, like Reconstruction, when one party is incorrigible.
voting rights
June 25, 2021
Justice Department Sues to Stop Georgia Voting Law With Republicans filibustering voting-rights legislation in Congress, the Justice Department is using litigation to go after Georgia’s notorious law.
voting rights
June 23, 2021
Democrats’ Voting Rights Push Stalled. It Was Still Worth It. The effort to enact the For the People Act was a smart investment that will pay off richly for Democrats.
choose your own dystopia
June 17, 2021
Can Joe Manchin of All People Trigger a Breakthrough on Voting Rights? The much-maligned Democrat has unveiled a compromise proposal that is getting praise from his party for a change.
Merrick Garland Unveils Plan B for Protecting Voting Rights As new congressional legislation stalls, the Justice Department will utilize the powers it already possesses to fight voter-suppression measures.
President Biden Isn’t Making Life Easy for Kamala Harris The vice-president is the presumed front-runner to someday succeed Biden. He might want to start giving her less impossible assignments.
Manchin Says He’ll Oppose For the People Act Democrats’ would-be landmark voting-rights legislation now officially appears to be dead on arrival.
voting rights
June 3, 2021
Manchin Probably Welcomes Biden’s Criticism on Voting Rights Biden promised action on voting rights and called out Senate centrists for standing in the way, but the truth is he has little leverage over them.
voting rights
May 30, 2021
Democrats Need a New Plan to Defend Voting Rights The outlook is dim for voting-rights legislation. DOJ enforcement and voter mobilization may be Democrats’ best shot for defending democracy.
voting rights
May 18, 2021
Is Joe Manchin’s Voting-Rights Campaign Serious? The West Virginia senator is calling for bipartisan action to restore the Voting Rights Act. But absent filibuster reform, it may not matter.
voting rights
Apr. 22, 2021
The John Lewis Voting Rights Act Picks Up Steam With a broader bill stalled, the Congressional Black Caucus pushes Democrats to restore the original Voting Rights Act.
voting rights
Apr. 9, 2021
What Is the Republican Party’s Position on Voting Rights? The implicit GOP position is to defer to states and localities — so far as their decisions help Republicans.
democracy reforms
Apr. 7, 2021
Voting Restrictions Aren’t the Primary Threat to U.S. Democracy The GOP is better at denying Democratic voters equal representation than it is at denying them access to the ballot.
voting rights
Mar. 26, 2021
What Can Democrats Do About Georgia’s Voting-Rights Restrictions? They are already going to court, and could pass preemptive legislation in Congress. But winning control of the state in 2022 is the best solution.
voting rights
Mar. 25, 2021
Manchin Values Bipartisanship Over Voting Rights The West Virginian doesn’t seem interested in voting rights if it means filibuster reform — unless he’s setting up a test Republicans will fail.
voting rights
Mar. 24, 2021
Will Joe Manchin Save Voting Rights? Manchin’s state is afoul of many provisions of the For the People Act. A more modest bill might help convince him to support a filibuster exception.
Why the Voting-by-Mail Fight May Be a Sideshow Republicans and Democrats have seemingly fallen for Trump’s wrongful belief that it cost him the election.
Will Democrats Act Like the Party of Voting Rights or Not? The conservative Supreme Court and GOP are set to do even more damage unless they’re stopped.
voting rights
Jan. 29, 2021
Why Democrats Must Keep the Filibuster From Killing Voting Rights With red states racing to further restrict voting, some limited filibuster reform to allow voting-rights legislation to be passed is now essential.
voting rights
Jan. 19, 2021
Democrats Push Voting-Rights Expansion With Fresh Urgency Republicans will block the reforms, but at the price of underlining an authoritarian strain in their thinking that will outlive Trump’s presidency.
voting rights
Mar. 8, 2019
House Democrats Pass Landmark Voting Rights Bill on a Party-Line Vote Back when the original Voting Rights Act passed, support and opposition were bipartisan. Now the parties have polarized on this issue too.
