House Democrats push voting bill that aims to upend Supreme Court decisions washingtonexaminer.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from washingtonexaminer.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Senate Republicans have successfully blocked sweeping legislation authored by Democrats this year that would have dramatically changed campaign and voting laws nationwide in a manner the GOP believes would give the Democratic Party a significant advantage in future elections.
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No political policy but revenge: How the Big Lie and its acolytes threaten the survival of our democracy
Conservative pundit William Kristol wrote in “The Bulwark” on March 1 what a number of us have been saying for a while now, and it dovetails cleanly with the current Republican attempt to suppress voting. Kristol warns that our democracy is in crisis.
For the first time in our history, we have failed to have a peaceful transfer of power. The Republican Party launched a coup which fortunately failed and “now claims that the current administration is illegitimately elected, the result of massive, coordinated fraud. The logical extension of this position would seem to be that the American constitutional order deserving of our allegiance no longer exists.”
Also awaiting a Senate vote is the legislation to restore parts of the Voting Rights Act the Supreme Court struck down in 2013.
Together, these bills would do more to protect and expand the right to vote than any act passed since the Great Society in the 1960s .
True small-d democracy, however, also requires that these votes actually matter – that they determine the direction in which the country moves. This is an even tougher fight, but the For the People Act includes several provisions that form a solid start.
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Both the House and Senate versions combat extreme partisan gerrymandering by requiring redistricting to be led by independent commissions. They also fight “dark money” in politics by requiring all political organisations to disclose their donors.
The Fight to Revive Democracy Has Only Just Begun thenation.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thenation.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.