While he expressed some support for elements of the bill, he also said that he was primarily focused on finding “a bipartisan solution” to the issues the bill addresses, including voting rights. For Clyburn, Manchin’s statement prioritizes bipartisanship over the voting rights of Black Americans and other minority groups. “The issue of civil rights and voting rights, these constitutional issues, should never be sacrificed on the altar of the filibuster,” Clyburn said. He warned that if Democrats let this voting rights bill, along with the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act reauthorizing the 1965 Voting Rights Act, fall to Republican-led filibusters, the party would “pay the biggest price it has ever paid at the polls” in the 2022 midterm elections. “Joe Biden is not going to allow the voting rights of Black people to be sacrificed on the altar of the filibuster.”

Source: Huffington Post April 01, 2021 19:18 UTC