After six months of aggressive Republican efforts to restrict voting access, Democrats are facing new questions about how they will actually pass voting rights reforms through Congress. They were mostly mum about the discussions of that meeting but overall resolute that some kind of voting rights bill has to pass. Photograph: Kevin Dietsch/UPI/Rex/ShutterstockIn the past few months it seemed like a showdown over the filibuster would come on a voting rights bill. Manchin has pointed to a reauthorization of preclearance requirements as a better way to protect voting rights than a sweeping voting bill. If Democrats went into the 2022 midterms without doing anything to protect voting rights, it would be disastrous, advocates said.

Source: The Guardian May 27, 2021 10:52 UTC