Biden’s much-heralded on voting rights last Wednesday laid out relatively modest action items: “Perhaps the most important thing we have to do,” he said, is “forge a coalition of Americans of every background and political party the advocates, the students, the faith leaders, the labor leaders, the business executives and raise the urgency of this moment.”
Yes, he mentioned strong congressional measures that would strengthen voting rights but not the Senate’s filibuster rules, which right now have stopped all voting rights legislation cold.
Critics wanted more: “We’d like for him to fight for voting rights as hard as they’ve been fighting for infrastructure,”