President Joe Biden honored Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday with a speech that tied the civil rights icon’s legacy to the importance of passing Democrats’ sweeping voting rights reform, which currently endangered by Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) refusing to change the filibuster. Biden Stresses Urgency Of Voting Rights Legislation … Read more
The Arizona Republic reports, ‘A meaningless Senate rule’: MLK family and activists gather against filibuster in Phoenix: Martin Luther King III’s family and local activist organizations gathered Saturday at Eastlake Park in Phoenix to kick off the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend with a rally against the Senate’s filibuster rule, days after Sen. Kyrsten … Read more
The Hill reports, House passes voting rights package, setting up Senate filibuster showdown: The House passed voting rights legislation on Thursday in a way that is intended to set up a battle in the Senate over that issue as well as the filibuster. The measure passed in a 220-203 party-line vote. Senate Majority Leader Charles … Read more
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris went to the cradle of the Civil Rights Movement, Atlanta, Georgia in the congressional district formerly represented by the late great civil rights hero Rep. John Lewis, and called on the Senate to pass the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Vting Rights Advancement Act … Read more
Despite Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema reiterating their opposition to reforming the Senate filibuster rule this week, even for fundamental voting rights in order to save American democracy from the enemies of democracy, Republicans appear suddenly fearful that Democrats’ voting rights bills could pass. There is a sudden flurry of interest this week from … Read more