This brings us back to timing: H.R. 1 has already passed the House, while Politico reports thatto the narrower version named after Lewis “could push a vote back to late summer or early fall at the earliest, according to multiple lawmakers and aides. Some in the caucus are discussing a possible vote next year.”
That would be too late to give the Department of Justice enough time to do everything it would need to. That includes having to: write a new list of states and locales that have violated voting rights access; determine which states have new laws that would now need federal sign-off; and allow for those states to appeal the DOJ’s decisions.
It would also be too late to make this particular gamble I have in mind work. Because if Republicans refuse to allow debate on H.R. 1, the Senate needs a backup in the form of the Lewis bill.
in elections — the future of American democracy can’t be left to a prayer that the other side whiffs at suppressing votes.Washington Post columnist Greg Sargent assessed correctly , the point of these bills and the messaging around them is to actually cause less trust in the electoral system among Republican voters, which in turn allows for even more voter suppression. Congress holds the key to stopping them. If the For the People Act can’t pass, then the John Lewis Voting Rights Act must. If Democrats won’t pass that, then I don’t know how we’ll ever set things right.
HayesBrown Daily The democrats have 2 DINO problems named Sinema and Manchin. If they will not support getting rid of the filibuster, the democratic agenda of Biden, who BTW, won by a record number of votes, will not be enacted.