Chuck Schumer's filibuster dodge for voting rights just may work

[Uncle Joe]

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This leads us to the play from Schumer and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. The two Democratic leaders have picked a bill that has already been passed back and forth several times: one on NASA. The House will pass “an amendment in the nature of a substitute,” essentially deleting the entirety of the original text and replacing it with the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. (The House Rules Committee met on Wednesday night to get that process started.)

When that bill reaches the Senate, boom: Schumer brings the new joint bill up for consideration on the floor. That’s a definite improvement over the last few times Democrats have tried to get the ball rolling on these debates, where the GOP has shut down debate before it even began.

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Schumer still has two holdouts in the caucus who are against any changes to the filibuster rule at all: Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona. Both have in the last few days emphasized their unwillingness to budge on that front and their commitment to sticking with the 60-vote threshold. They’ve been having conversations with other senators on that front, and Biden will attend the Senate Democrats’ weekly lunch on Thursday to try to seal the deal. But Schumer will call the vote by Monday — Martin Luther King Jr. Day — at the latest. If the GOP’s filibuster holds, it will only be thanks to Manchin's and Sinema's stubbornness.

For all the high drama, the stakes are very real here: The state-level assault on voting rights from Republicans is real and will have implications for our democracy for decades to come. These bills are the best way to level the playing field for everyone moving forward. Failure to act because two people want to defend a rule that is undemocratic, is against the founders’ wishes and was developed to defend racism is simply unacceptable.

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https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/chuck-schumer-s-filibuster-dodge-voting-rights-just-may-work-n1287395

[58Sunliner]

1. Thank you.

[PoliticAverse]

2. "by Monday ... at the latest" - this is already wrong, the vote is now Tuesday. n/t

[Bev54]

3. Yes because one of the dems has covid and can't be there by Monday.