As a mass shooting, possible tornadoes, and school closures drew Georgians attention on St. Patrick s Day, Republicans in its GOP-majority legislature in Atlanta raced to push a massive rewrite of an election bill to "drastically change" the state s voting laws toward passage.
There aren t many polling questions these days that draw 90 percent-plus agreement, but Americans are united by one central idea: They believe the country should remain a democracy.
New Study Shows Manchinâs âBipartisanâ Approach On Voting Rights Is Misguided
When Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia shot down Democrats signature voting rights legislation in an op-ed last week, he said that protecting voting rights should never be done in a partisan manner.
But a new Brennan Center analysis of the voter suppression laws sweeping the nation shows what a preposterous and indeed hypocritical position that is. The center s examination of the 24 state-level voting restriction laws enacted as of early June proves the suppression efforts have been an almost exclusively Republican enterprise. Overall, we find that these new laws were enacted as part of an overwhelmingly partisan Republican push, reads the report. Republicans introduced and drove virtually all of the bills that impose new voting restrictions, and the harshest new laws were passed with almost exclusively Republican votes and signed into law by Republican governors.
When Sen. Joe Manchin announced he would oppose the For the People Act, Steve Benen of MSNBC spoke for many Democrats when he declared that "Joe Manchin is prepared to be remembered by history as the senator who did little more than hope as his country s democracy unraveled."
Kamala Harris has been vilified by critics on the right, but the people who may end up detesting her most are not conservatives or even contemporaries. They are future vice presidents, who will curse her for loading up the office with heavy burdens.