Left-leaning groups are launching a $30 million campaign aimed at persuading the Senate to pass a sweeping voting rights bill that most Republicans have come out against.
Democrats Can Save Democracy Or Preserve The Filibuster â Not Both
A lie repeated often enough doesn t become truth, it gets codified by Republican state legislatures. That s the case with the Big Lie, that voter fraud stole the 2020 election from Donald Trump. Whether or not they actually believe it, Republican lawmakers across the country are acting on it, introducing more than 250 bills in 43 states making it harder for people to vote. That s despite the fact that the most litigated presidential election in history exposed no fraud at all. Trump s legal team couldn t prove it in court after court.
As of now, just three statesâIowa, Arkansas, and Utahâhave enacted new voter suppression laws, but the wave of new state laws is likely just cresting. There s a remedy: federal action. It can only be applied, however, with Senate reform of the filibuster. As long as Republicans see that their only hope of ever winning elections again is to limit the voting popula
For Voting Rights Advocates, a âOnce in a Generation Momentâ Looms
Opposition to restrictive Republican voting laws â and support for a sweeping Democratic bill â fuels a movement like none in decades. But can it succeed?
Protesters demonstrating against proposed changes to Georgiaâs voting laws, this month in Atlanta.Credit.Ben Gray/Associated Press
Published March 15, 2021Updated April 1, 2021
WASHINGTON â State and national voting-rights advocates are waging the most consequential political struggle over access to the ballot since the civil rights era, a fight increasingly focused on a far-reaching federal overhaul of election rules in a last-ditch bid to offset a wave of voting restrictions sweeping Republican-controlled state legislatures.
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