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Dear Media: When the court strips rights from Americans, it's not a blow to POTUS.
It is a blow to Democrcy and Americans. It is the attempts of the extremist right to control people.
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Biden's voting rights failure in the Senate is his own doing
The president had a chance to pass his agenda when his approval rating was at its highest. Without the public's support, it's hard for him to convince members of Congress to fall in line.
Jan. 20, 2022, 2:27 PM EST
By Lincoln Mitchell, political analyst
In a blow to President Joe Biden, activists and American democracy, efforts to protect voting rights were defeated in the Senate on Wednesday by Democratic Sens. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Joe Manchin of West Virginia.
The ability of a president to influence members of Congress is always limited. It seems like frequently members of the opposition party care little about what the president says or does. With regards to voting rights, this means that Biden has, rightly, written off the idea of getting any Republicans to vote to protect the rights of all Americans to vote. Most presidents can influence their own party, but even that kind of presidential power ebbs and flows.
Unfortunately, Biden decided to lean on the Senate during a period when his power was at a low ebb.
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https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/biden-s-voting-rights-failure-senate-his-own-doing-ncna1287770
The president had a chance to pass his agenda when his approval rating was at its highest. Without the public's support, it's hard for him to convince members of Congress to fall in line.
Jan. 20, 2022, 2:27 PM EST
By Lincoln Mitchell, political analyst
In a blow to President Joe Biden, activists and American democracy, efforts to protect voting rights were defeated in the Senate on Wednesday by Democratic Sens. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona and Joe Manchin of West Virginia.
The ability of a president to influence members of Congress is always limited. It seems like frequently members of the opposition party care little about what the president says or does. With regards to voting rights, this means that Biden has, rightly, written off the idea of getting any Republicans to vote to protect the rights of all Americans to vote. Most presidents can influence their own party, but even that kind of presidential power ebbs and flows.
Unfortunately, Biden decided to lean on the Senate during a period when his power was at a low ebb.
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https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/biden-s-voting-rights-failure-senate-his-own-doing-ncna1287770
And in case the above relevance was missed - these bills were created in part to remedy the SCOTUS torpedoing Section 4 of the VRA, which then killed Section 5 by default, as well as a near-gutting of Section 2 last year, where both Voting Rights bills were done in order to fix those rulings and help to restore the increasing attempts by RW loons, including those on the SCOTUS, who are systematically intent on destroying voting rights and fair elections.
After that 2nd torpedo of Voting Rights by the SCOTUS, you had this crap -
How the Supreme Court threw the Biden administration's ramped-up voting rights agenda off the rails
Grace Panetta
Jul 2, 2021, 3:47 PM
Shortly after the Supreme Court handed down its decision in a major voting case Thursday, election law scholar Rick Hasen wrote that "the conservative Supreme Court has taken away all the major available tools for going after voting restrictions" — and it couldn't come at a worse time for the Biden administration.
Following public criticism from advocacy groups and even some Democratic lawmakers directed at the White House for not taking a stronger and more urgent stance on voting rights, President Joe Biden is pledging to "go on the road" and speak "extensively" on voting rights while Vice President Kamala Harris takes the lead on the administration's voting rights push in Congress.
Voting rights advocates hoping for more concrete action, including through lawsuits over restrictive voting laws passed in GOP-controlled states, were dealt a major setback on Thursday with a consequential decision from the Supreme Court that throws their plans off the rails.
In Democratic National Committee v. Brnovich, the court ruled 6-3 to uphold two Arizona voting laws under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, with the majority opinion authored by Justice Samuel Alito setting new standards that will likely take a lot of force out of the law, designed to protect minority voters from voting discrimination nationwide and particularly in states with long histories of racist voter suppression.
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https://www.businessinsider.com/scotus-voting-decision-derails-dem-biden-admin-voting-rights-push-2021-7
Grace Panetta
Jul 2, 2021, 3:47 PM
Shortly after the Supreme Court handed down its decision in a major voting case Thursday, election law scholar Rick Hasen wrote that "the conservative Supreme Court has taken away all the major available tools for going after voting restrictions" — and it couldn't come at a worse time for the Biden administration.
Following public criticism from advocacy groups and even some Democratic lawmakers directed at the White House for not taking a stronger and more urgent stance on voting rights, President Joe Biden is pledging to "go on the road" and speak "extensively" on voting rights while Vice President Kamala Harris takes the lead on the administration's voting rights push in Congress.
Voting rights advocates hoping for more concrete action, including through lawsuits over restrictive voting laws passed in GOP-controlled states, were dealt a major setback on Thursday with a consequential decision from the Supreme Court that throws their plans off the rails.
In Democratic National Committee v. Brnovich, the court ruled 6-3 to uphold two Arizona voting laws under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, with the majority opinion authored by Justice Samuel Alito setting new standards that will likely take a lot of force out of the law, designed to protect minority voters from voting discrimination nationwide and particularly in states with long histories of racist voter suppression.
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https://www.businessinsider.com/scotus-voting-decision-derails-dem-biden-admin-voting-rights-push-2021-7
It's never the Republicans' fault for destroying democracy and taking away rights. It's always "the Democrats" and "what are WE going to do about it?".
