'If that bare minimum is blocked, we have no option but to change the Senate rules.'
oe Biden seems like an unlikely advocate for demanding the Senate change its long-standing rules.
For decades, Senate rules have required that 60 Senators agree to end debate and move a bill to a vote. In today’s evenly-split Senate , Republicans have been able to use the filibuster rule to block multiple voting rights bills that would standardize voting access measures across states. In 2021, some Democrats began calling for a carve out to the filibuster rule to allow them to pass the voting rights bills with a simple majority, and now Biden says he supports that plan.
to restrict access to voting and to allow politicians to determine the outcome of elections. Biden “understands that the democracy itself is imperiled by this all out assault that we’ve been witnessing by state legislatures all across the country,” Senator Raphael Warnock, a Democrat from Georgia, told reporters before Biden’s speech on Tuesday. “This is a moral moment.
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