Voting Rights Legislation Again Blocked In Senate, Democrats’ Move To Modify Filibuster Rules Likely To Fall Short
switched his vote at the last minute, a procedural maneuver so that the legislation could be brought up again.
In her remarks to the Senate, Sen. Amy Klobuchar cited the rollback of same-day voter registration in Montana and voting restrictions passed in Georgia.Sen. referred to the legislation as an extension of the work of Martin Luther King, who faced a flank of state troopers as he led a voting rights protest across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, AL, 1965. “I still pray that we will cross that bridge, but if not tonight we will come back again and again and again,” Warnock said.
Yet the alarm expressed by many Democrats is that state legislation followed former President Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was rigged.
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