Schumer to bring up Manchin's voting rights bill next week, with GOP filibuster all but guaranteed

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced in a letter to Senate Democrats Thursday that he will bring the Freedom To Vote Act to the floor when the Senate returns next week. This is the bill that …

Voting Rights Roundup: Democrats unveil voting and redistricting reform bill with Manchin's support

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● Congress: Senate Democrats, including pivotal moderate Joe Manchin, have introduced a major revision to the party’s sweeping voting rights and redistricting reform legislation this …

Georgia Republicans take next step in making sure a Democrat is never elected there again

Under a veneer of “bipartisanship” and “good government,” the potential takeover of Fulton County, Georgia’s election operations has begun. The State Election Board has …

The Supreme Court and the filibuster both have to change if our democracy is going to be saved

Alabama Rep. Terri Sewell on Tuesday stood on the infamous Edmund Pettus Bridge, the site of the brutal Bloody Sunday beatings of civil rights marchers on March 7, 1965, to formally introduce the John …

Republicans take one last opportunity to give the finger to democracy before leaving town

Senate Republicans got one more chance to prove that they have absolutely no interest in securing every citizen’s right to vote before heading out the door in the wee hours of Wednesday morning. …

Texas Supreme court treats Democrats fighting for voting rights as criminals

One month ago, Texas House Democrats left the state to deny Republican Gov. Greg Abbott and the Republican legislature the ability to gut voting rights in a special session. The Democratic lawmakers …

Senate Democrats plot a push on voting rights before recess

Senate Democrats are exploring options to bring voting rights to the floor before leaving for the remainder of the summer. With the bipartisan infrastructure bill and follow-up budget resolution to …

Ossoff ups the fight for voting rights, introducing first-ever statutory federal right to vote

In 2021, it has come to this: A United States senator is introducing legislation to confirm that every American citizen has a right to vote. It’s going to take a law from the U.S. Congress to …

Filibuster carve-out for voting rights might be in reach with Manchin

Senate Democrats have been crafting a revised voting rights bill that Sen. Joe Manchin might deign to vote for, particularly since he is in the group that’s working on it. The Rev. Sen. Raphael …

Now would be a very good time for Schumer, Pelosi to cancel August recess

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has given Congress a deadline on raising the debt ceiling: Oct. 1, the same day that the government could potentially shut down if a funding bill for the next fiscal …

Biden draws sharp response from activists, leaders he's telling to work harder on voting rights

Voting rights activist are respectfully but firmly calling bullshit on President Joe Biden’s repeated assertion that voter suppression can be overcome with activism. A number of voting rights …

Biden betrays the Black activists who got him to the White House in filibuster stance

President Joe Biden’s clear intent to try to unify the nation is laudable. It’s a message a very large chunk of America loves to hear: that the people they elected will come together to …

The day after telling Texas Democrats he cares about voting rights, Manchin sells them out—in Texas

Sen. Joe Manchin met with the courageous Texas Democrats who left Austin this week to deny the House a quorum, to keep their state from further eroding the right to vote. They came to D.C. to try to …

166 companies sign letter to Congress urging lawmakers to expand Voting Rights Act

On Wednesday, more than 150 major companies sent a letter urging lawmakers to introduce and pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, an amendment to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as …

Biden to Republicans: 'Have you no shame?' Of course not! That's why the filibuster has to go

President Joe Biden gave a stemwinder of a speech in Philadelphia Tuesday, declaring that the restoration of voting rights is the urgent national “test of our time,” and calling the mass …

Texas Democrats leave state to deny legislative quorum, head to D.C. to save voting rights

Democrats are going to have nothing to do with the special session Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has called. That’s because he’s not trying to deal with critical issues like COVID-19 or fixing …

Schumer bows to necessity, warns that August recess could be cut short

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer wants infrastructure. He wants it bad enough that he’s threatening the Senate’s August recess. “We have already made excellent progress towards our …

Voting Rights Roundup: Supreme Court guts the last critical protections of the Voting Rights Act

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● Supreme Court: On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservatives ruled 6-3 along ideological lines to strike a historic blow against the Voting Rights Act in overturning a 9th Circuit …

Pelosi and Schumer, cancel recess. Save democracy

What a week. The Supreme Court essentially dismantled the remains of the Voting Rights Act, and while they were at it, made sure that dark money takes precedence over votes, particularly votes by …

The Supreme Court is about to rule on voting rights, and it's not likely to be good

The U.S. Supreme Court is poised to release an opinion any day now on Brnovich v. DNC and with it could strike another devastating blow to the Voting Rights Act. The court heard the case back in …