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Op-Ed: How a voting-rights exception to the filibuster could help shore up our democracy

Op-Ed: How a voting-rights exception to the filibuster could help shore up our democracy Stephen Marks © (Pablo Martinez Monsivais / Associated Press) Rep. Nancy Pelosi speaks to reporters after staging a daylong filibuster on Feb. 7, 2018, to demand protections for young immigrants known as Dreamers. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais / Associated Press) Our democracy has been gravely challenged in recent years by foreign interference, domestic attacks, widespread voter suppression and by the filibuster, which can prevent bills that have majority support from becoming law. A simple compromise proposal I call the “voting-rights exception” has the potential to address all of these issues by exempting from the filibuster bills that concern voting rights.

Lucid Motors set to go public with Saudi money amid SPAC mania

Lucid Motors was near death and desperate for cash in 2018 when it was handed a lifeline. The savior was Saudi Arabia. The desert kingdom’s sovereign wealth fund invested $1.3 billion in the electric car start-up. Lucid regained full health. Now, in 2021, the Saudi fund and Lucid’s founders are poised to cash in by taking advantage of the manic market in so-called blank-check shell companies, also known as SPACs. In a deal that is near completion, according to a source familiar with the negotiations, the company would draw a hefty but as-yet undetermined amount of cash to fund its operations. If the deal goes off without a hitch, Lucid executives and board members including Chairman Andrew Liveris, a former Dow Chemical chief executive with deep financial ties to Saudi Arabia would get a shot at a big payday.

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