electionsreform

From the shadow docket, radical Supreme Court blows up Voting Rights Act, allows racist gerrymander

The U.S. Supreme Court hacked one more big chunk out of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) Monday, allowing Alabama to implement a congressional redistricting plan a lower court had rejected. They did it …

Tue Feb 8, 2022

New proposal from Democrats sets the bar for Collins/Manchin ‘bipartisan’ ruse on election reform

The confession from the former guy that hell yes, he was attempting a coup, and that he’d pardon anyone convicted of trying to violently overthrow the government on his behalf should he be in a …

Mon Feb 7, 2022

‘Democracy’s foes have not had the last word.’ The fight to save democracy won’t stop

What comes next? Republicans teamed up with two faithless Democrats, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, to deliver a body blow to President Joe Biden, democracy, and their own institution Wednesday. …

Thu Jan 20, 2022

The easy trick Democrats have to save democracy, and the Senate, if Manchin & Sinema let them

Despite what you might be hearing from Republicans and Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, the proposal Senate Democrats will advance for reforming the filibuster to pass voting rights is carefully …

Wed Jan 19, 2022

It's official: Manchin and Sinema are the lone holdouts among Democrats, refusing to save democracy

At 6:30 PM ET Wednesday, the Senate Democrats will try to break the filibuster on voting rights and election reform. There will be 48 Democrats united behind doing this, according to Fix the Senate, …

Wed Jan 19, 2022

Manchin, Sinema could be forced to work in potential Plan B keep filibuster and save voting rights

The Senate resumes Tuesday at noon, foregoing what would have been a week of recess for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, in order to debate the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act, the combined voting …

Tue Jan 18, 2022

Schumer postpones filibuster, voting rights fight to next week

It was the perfect storm for the Senate on Thursday, resulting in disaster for Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s plan to have a showdown over the filibuster and voting rights and elections reforms by …

Fri Jan 14, 2022

Manchin, Sinema just made it that much easier for Trump to seize control

During recent weeks, while President Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer have been building the case for the Freedom to Vote and the John Lewis Voting Rights bills, there’s also been …

Fri Jan 14, 2022

Sinema surrenders to McConnell, betraying President Biden, Democrats, democracy

Arizona Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema gave a floor speech in the Senate Thursday that has been unequaled in cringeworthiness since Sen. Susan Collins stood there and told the nation that she was …

Thu Jan 13, 2022

Republicans, Manchin, and Sinema won’t be able to avoid debating voting rights this time

Congressional Democrats have determined how to get the Freedom to Vote and John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement acts to the Senate floor for actual debate, something the Republicans have been blocking …

Thu Jan 13, 2022

Biden, Harry Reid’s ghost, and the Democratic caucus tell Manchin and Sinema to save democracy

The U.S. Congress is pausing today to honor the first legislative giant to emerge in the 21st century, former Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada, who will lie in state in the Capitol rotunda Wednesday. He is …

Wed Jan 12, 2022

Schumer seizes the moment to force Manchin and Sinema to take a side on democracy

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced on the floor at the opening of Tuesday’s session that the Senate will act “as soon as tomorrow” on voting rights and elections reform. “It is my …

Tue Jan 11, 2022

Frustration with Manchin, Sinema reaching boiling point with Democratic colleagues

Frustrations with West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin are about ready to boil over, if you can judge by what Democratic sources are telling the press, as the showdown Senate Majority Leader  Chuck Schumer …

Mon Jan 10, 2022

Senate closes out fraught week by gearing up for fight to end the filibuster on voting rights

The Senate and House, well Democrats in Congress and the Cheneys, conducted a number of 1/6 remembrances Thursday. Republicans avoided Capitol Hill on the anniversary of the violent insurrection … …

Fri Jan 7, 2022

Reforming the Electoral Count Act is necessary, but not sufficient, to save our democracy

For the past month or so, conservative never-Trumpers have been pushing Senate Republicans to support Electoral Count Act reforms. That last one is an op-ed by a senior leader at the conservative …

Thu Jan 6, 2022

Schumer, Democrats focusing on saving democracy; McConnell, Republicans on undermining it

The busy start to the 2022 legislative session Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer promised before they all left for the Christmas break has kind of fizzled. Because of the snow storm that hit D.C., …

Wed Jan 5, 2022

Schumer gives Sinema, Manchin a choice: Keep giving Republicans cover or save democracy

“Between January 1 and December 7,” an end-of-year analysis by the Brennan Center says, “at least 19 states passed 34 laws restricting access to voting.” The emphasis is in the original because it …

Tue Jan 4, 2022

Will the anniversary of the insurrection be enough to spur Manchin and Sinema to save democracy?

This week in Congress, which as always is really about this week in the Senate, is getting off to a delayed start because of the winter storm bearing down on the region. Before they left last month, …

Mon Jan 3, 2022

Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have to decide soon if they’ll help in saving democracy

When the Senate returns to work next week, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has promised quick action on voting rights and tackling, one way or another, the filibuster. When he brings up the voting …

Wed Dec 29, 2021

Details emerge on some of the grift behind Trump's months-long preelection voter fraud claims

The past squatter in the Oval Office spent months and months sowing seeds of distrust in our election system, trying to make sure that he had laid the groundwork to challenge the election—or have an …

Mon Dec 27, 2021