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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.

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