Senators Manchin and Murkowski call for reauthorization of Voting Rights Act

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Two U.S. senators, a Republican and a Democrat, asked Congress on Monday to reauthorize the Voting Rights Act, as Republican-controlled state legislatures pass measures imposing new curbs on voting.

Democrat Joe Manchin and Republican Lisa Murkowski noted in a letter that the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which outlawed discriminatory voting practices, was last reauthorized in 2006 with a bipartisan Senate vote of 98-0.

The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a key portion of the Voting Rights Act in 2013, saying that Section 4, the formula used to determine which states and localities were subject to additional federal scrutiny, was outdated.

"Protecting Americans' access to democracy has not been a partisan issue for the past 56 years, and we must not allow it to become one now," Manchin and Murkowski wrote.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/bipartisan-pair-u-senators-call-221714088.html

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1. Well, well, well. Manchin finally does something Dem voters.

[madaboutharry]

2. When is Lisa Murkowski going to wake up

and figure out her party has been overrun by fascists and Nazis?

I believe she is a principled person. I would think life in the Republican Party must be torture for a person who knows right from wrong. Why do they stay? Is it some political form of Stockholm Syndrome?

[msfiddlestix]

3. Just for show..

that's an easy give. They know their call for others to join them will likely be ignored, but "at least they tried" . And on the flip side if others do join them, there won't be enough votes to pass it on the 60 vote mandate.

I keep seeing these same "news" posted by others like it was something to hang our hat on.

It isn't something for us to hang our hat. it's just kabuki.

[Elessar Zappa]

4. So,

you’re saying all hope is lost? I certainly don’t believe that.

[Blue_true]

7. You are wrong.

With Murkowski and Manchin onboard in the Senate, such reauthorization will be a lock.

[LeftInTX]

9. The problem is: The House has not passed this particular bill

They passed another bill

[JI7]

10. They can easily pass it if that's what is possible righ tnow

[msfiddlestix]

11. 60 Votes are not required? Just a simple majority?

[Fiendish Thingy]

5. Jim Crow Joe still opposes HR1- the only Dem to do so.

He is nominally supporting an expansion of HR4 to all 50 states without needs testing, which will ensure it is overturned by SCOTUS.

[BootinUp]

6. its a good one for us to fight them over

regardless the prospect of passage.

[UTUSN]

8. K&R for, any bit of hope