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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis is what McConnell is up to:
Heather Cox Richardson (free daily emails)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-28-2021
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Senator Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) blocked the effort. There is no chance, no chance the Republican conference will go out of our way to help Democrats conserve their time and energy, so they can resume ramming through partisan socialism as fast as possible, he said.
It is hard to escape the conclusion that McConnell is deliberately running out Congresss clock, and it is hard to ignore that the big item on the Senates agenda is the Freedom to Vote Act, which Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Raphael Warnock (D-GA), Jon Tester (D-MT), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Alex Padilla (D-CA), and Angus King (I-ME) have worked to hammer out in place of the voting rights bills passed by the House.
The Freedom to Vote Act protects the right to vote. It also bans partisan gerrymandering.
States have already begun to carve up districts based on the 2020 census numbers. The Texas legislature, for one, has gerrymandered its stateone that is imperative for the Republicans to hold for the 2024 presidential electionto protect Republicans and underrepresent Black and Latino voters, who tend to vote Democratic. (Growth in the Latino population is what gave the state two new representatives.) If Texas redistricting is completed by November 15, the candidate filing period will end on December 13. At that point, after candidates have filed according to established district lines, it will be significantly harder for courts to overturn those lines before the 2022 election
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msongs
(67,395 posts)applegrove
(118,622 posts)could be.
SergeStorms
(19,193 posts)That's as far as I'm going with clues to her identity.
applegrove
(118,622 posts)FBaggins
(26,727 posts)He just wants Democrats to have to pass the debt ceiling increase entirely on their own - specifically in a way that forced them to pick a new figure.
FtVA is on life support at best. I dont think hes worried about it.