'A few people stand in the way. Not just Republicans, every one of them has taken any immoral position against voting rights. But that's not who I want to talk about today,' said Martin Luther King III
—that there’s no navigable path forward for current Democratic proposals to establish national standards for voting rights. Both Manchin and Sinema said Thursday their opinion on discarding the filibuster for voting rights hasn’t changed. Even a presidential visit to the Capitol and a special meeting between the president and the two senators Thursday night couldn’t sway them.
“Do away with the filibuster. It’s already been done away with for the debt ceiling legislation that was needed just a few weeks back. So why not for voting rights?” Rep. Adriano Espaillat said. Rep. Jamaal Bowman also called out Republicans, Sinema and Manchin for blocking a number of Democratic priorities in the Senate, including voting rights and police reform, from moving forward.And some Democrats told their fellow members at large to put up or hush up on this MLK holiday.
If that doesn’t reach its 60-vote threshold, which it likely won’t, they’ll vote on changing the rules to allow voting rights bills to pass by simple majority next.
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