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Congressional Democrats take a machete to the Supreme Court's election jurisprudence in new voting rights bill
A bill named for John Lewis would undo Supreme Court decisions weakening the Voting Rights Act, the…
Grace Panetta
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Capitol police arrested Rep. Joyce Beatty as she led a demonstration to advocate for voting rights
Beatty, who serves as chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, urged lawmakers to pass legislation …
Lauren Frias
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White House officials tell civil rights leaders they can 'out-organize voter suppression' as voting rights bills stall: report
The officials told advocates that they believe it's possible to "out-organize voter suppression," a…
Bryan Metzger
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Congressman Al Green wants fair Texas maps for people of color and he's willing to sue for them
Rep. Al Green of Texas wants to ensure voters of color are not erased by maps that create two addit…
Gwen Aviles
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Democratic Sen. Mark Warner would support 'small carve-out' on filibuster to pass voting-rights legislation
"If we have to do a small carve out on filibuster for voting rights - that is the only area where I…
John L. Dorman
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Want to hear something really scary? We're living through the death of democracy, but thankfully there's a solution.
America's democratic norms are slowly being eroded. Unless Democrats do something to stop this auto…
Michael Gordon
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Rep. Hakeem Jeffries blasts Republicans for their opposition to voting-rights legislation: 'What happened? Was it the election of Barack Obama?'
"Voting rights now is a partisan thing," Jeffries said, criticizing Republicans for being "largely …
John L. Dorman
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Manchin, Murkowski for bipartisan support to reauthorize the Voting Rights Act. Bill needs 9 more GOP votes to pass in the Senate.
Though the letter doesn't explicitly name the bill, a Manchin aide told NBC that the duo are referr…
Erin Snodgrass
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Trump said Republicans will never be elected again if Democrats pass their voting rights bill
The "Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act" seeks to expand voting access and introduce reforms relate…
Morgan Keith
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Sen. Kyrsten Sinema's filibuster speech has reenergized progressive efforts to find someone to primary and oust the Arizona Democrat
Grassroots groups in Arizona are working feverishly to find someone to challenge and unseat Democra…
Kayla Epstein
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Voting rights is a matter of justice, not bipartisanship
While Democrats and Republicans battle over voting rights legislation, professor Ray Baker writes t…
Ray Baker
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'It was an angry speech': Trump slams Obama's eulogy of civil rights icon John Lewis, calling it 'terrible' and 'ridiculous'
Obama called on Congress to pass a new Voting Rights Act in Lewis' honor and threw his support behi…
Eliza Relman
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Obama calls the filibuster a 'Jim Crow relic' and says it should be abolished if necessary during his powerful eulogy for John Lewis
"If all this takes eliminating the filibuster, another Jim Crow relic, in order to secure the God-g…
Grace Panetta
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Pelosi said lawmakers should 'just go to the beach and forget the whole thing' if voting rights legislation failed, book says
Pelosi clashed with the White House over what she saw as lack of urgency to pass the bill and even …
Grace Panetta,Brent D. Griffi…
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McConnell opposes a bill restoring a key part of the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, dashing all hope of any congressional action on voting
The minority leader threw cold water on the bipartisan proposal from Democrat Joe Manchin and Repub…
Grace Panetta
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'We can't just rally every four years:' Young people of color stand up to voter suppression in Florida and Texas
Florida and Texas lawmakers introduced voting rights legislation organizers say are designed to dis…
Gwen Aviles
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Watch Barack Obama's powerful eulogy of civil rights icon John Lewis
Obama called Lewis "a founding father of a fuller, fairer, better America" and called for Americans…
Grace Panetta
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Bernie Sanders says the Arizona Democratic Party was 'exactly right' in censuring Sen. Kyrsten Sinema over her vote to preserve the filibuster
Sanders in recent days has floated backing progressive primary challengers to Democratic senators w…
John L. Dorman
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Biden says eliminating the filibuster would 'throw the entire Congress into chaos' and 'nothing will get done'
Biden has frustrated voting rights advocates with his hesitancy to push for changes to the Senate f…
Grace Panetta
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House Democrats pass 2 voting-rights bills, setting up a showdown in the Senate
Congressional Democrats used a creative procedural workaround to fast-track consideration of the bi…