A Modest New Voting Rights Bill Gives Proponents One Last Shot at the Senate ...Middle East

It’s been a trying few months for progressive activists hoping Congress would pass comprehensive voting rights legislation. Republicans torpedoed the For the People Act, a sweeping elections and ethics reform bill, and seem unwilling to support the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which would restore a portion of the 1965 Voting Rights Act gutted by the Supreme Court.Although they now control the Senate by a razor-thin majority, Democrats have limited power to enact much of their agenda thanks to the filibuster, which—say it with me now—requires 10 Republicans to support any legislation in order for it to advance. And despite increasingly loud calls to eliminate the filibuster from

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