Democrats Are Close to Ending the Filibuster for Voting Rights. They May Regret It
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Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox every weekday.As President Joe Biden delivered a major speech in Atlanta on Tuesday designed to prod the Senate to change its rules in order to pass a pair of voting-rights bills, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s orbit at the Capitol warned Democrats: be careful what you wish for.The dueling messages set up the political stage for this election year, when the entire House and 34 seats in the Senate are up for grabs. Many are still stung by Democrats’ 2013 decision to invoke the nuclear option that moved almost all confirmations to simple majority votes—and Republicans’ 2017 sequel that added the Supreme Court to gigs that dodged a 60-vote barrier and made possible Trump’s three successful nominations.At the moment, Biden seems only focused on delivering voting-rights protections instead of worrying about what comes next. Democrats still face a difficult path to getting the two voting-rights bills to Biden’s desk.
As said here by Philip Elliott