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turbinetree

(24,632 posts)
Fri Jan 4, 2019, 12:00 PM Jan 2019

With Major Elections Bill, House Dems Get Ball Rolling On Fixing Voting Rights Act

Source: Talking Points Memo

By Tierney Sneed
January 4, 2019 6:00 am

A major legislative package of democracy reforms House Democrats will introduce on Friday is both a notable marker of the emphasis the new majority wants to put on voting rights and the beginning of the process by which Democrats hope to restore the Voting Rights Act, which the Supreme Court gutted in 2013.


According to a summary of the package sent to reporters, the bill — known as “We the People Democracy Reform Act” or HR1 — makes a congressional finding that the 2013 decision in Shelby County v. Holder led to a wave of voter suppression and instructs Congress to build a record upon the finding.

The House is expected to consider a separate bill that would restore the provision of the Voting Rights Act that the Supreme Court dismantled. That provision required states and localities with a history of racial voter discrimination to get election policy changes pre-approved by the federal government. The bill to address head on the Shelby County decision is moving on its own track, a House Democratic aide told TPM, so the House can build a record of the voter suppression that has happened since the decision came down. Such a public record, legal experts believe, will help protect a VRA fix, if passed, from court challenges conservatives may try to bring against it.

The “We the People” legislation Democratic leaders will be touting at a press conference Friday morning will not include that VRA fix. However, it includes several other provisions expanding the franchise that have been championed by voting rights activists, such as automatic voter registration, same day voter registration, mandated early voting, a requirement that states set up independent redistricting commissions to prevent gerrymander, and a campaign finance overhaul.

Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/house-democrats-will-introduce-bill-to-fix-voting-rights-act





Lets see what the senate does.......................
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With Major Elections Bill, House Dems Get Ball Rolling On Fixing Voting Rights Act (Original Post) turbinetree Jan 2019 OP
I think we know what the Senate will do SHRED Jan 2019 #1
47 AYES and 53 NAYS..................prediction, or it will not be brought yup for a vote turbinetree Jan 2019 #2
Good BumRushDaShow Jan 2019 #3
will go nowhere beachbum bob Jan 2019 #4
If McConnell doesn't table it, the traitor will veto it dalton99a Jan 2019 #5
Yeah, 2020 isn't that far off. Need to be ready. Bradical79 Jan 2019 #6

turbinetree

(24,632 posts)
2. 47 AYES and 53 NAYS..................prediction, or it will not be brought yup for a vote
Fri Jan 4, 2019, 12:18 PM
Jan 2019

and then it will sit there in the senate chamber.......................


November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough....................

BumRushDaShow

(127,320 posts)
3. Good
Fri Jan 4, 2019, 12:53 PM
Jan 2019


We gotta start somewhere and it will definitely be helpful to have those public hearings on what has happened post-2013 so that legislation to deal with re-instating Sect. 5 when Section 4 was thrown out.

dalton99a

(81,073 posts)
5. If McConnell doesn't table it, the traitor will veto it
Fri Jan 4, 2019, 02:07 PM
Jan 2019

But it must be done - and reintroduced until it passes

 

Bradical79

(4,490 posts)
6. Yeah, 2020 isn't that far off. Need to be ready.
Fri Jan 4, 2019, 02:17 PM
Jan 2019

Writing, refining, and pushing legislation like this should make it be ready day one in 2021 should we take back the Senate and Presidency. Biggest obstacle to everything is the damage done to our democracy.

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