Republicans blocked the Voting Rights Act.

Chief Justice Roberts “Had It In for the Voting Rights Act”

How can they block it if they don't have a majority?

I think they need 60 votes for it to pass.

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Advocacy groups and activists expressed disgust with Republicans for obstructing the reforms. Stephany Spaulding, a spokesperson for Just Democracy, said: “Senate Republicans’ filibuster circus today was shameful, and a direct attack on the millions of Black and Brown Americans who this broken body denied equal voting rights.

She added: “It is equally shameful that a handful of Senate Democrats turned their backs on the very people who elected them, and permitted Republicans to use the Jim Crow filibuster to inhibit progress on equal voting rights, instead of eliminating this procedure.”

Thank you R3.

this is why there is discussion about getting rid of the filibuster.

Where’s the infrastructure bill? Is Biden still touring the country and promoting it? Not sure why he needed to do that…

Last week, Manchin proposed a compromise bill that would make voter registration automatic, set Election Day as a holiday, require at least 15 days of early voting for federal elections and prohibit partisan gerrymandering, but also require voter IDs with several ways to prove an individual’s identity, which many Democrats oppose.

Obama has announced (yes obama) that we should do it. Voter ID is controversial, though having something like this may get a few Republicans.

manchin and sinema shouldn't be able to leave their homes without people screaming at them

Perhaps if they didn't frame it as a fight for black votes and instead framed it as a fight for all Americans voters, it might have passed. I mean, its not only black people effected but this.

It’s working.

Fucking republicans. What is the point of having a majority in the Senate if we can't get landmark legislation passed?

The US requires every able bodied male to register for the Selective Service System within 30 days of turning 18. If the US can do this for military purposes, why can't it do it for democratic ones? In fact, just add voter registration to the Selective Service registration process and it's half done.

Sure R11. 🙄

What color is the fucking sky in your world??

[R14] or social security.

How many people do not have an address, a past voting record, Social Security or driver's license/ID? Just give these people a voting card or something.

This is not hard. If you want people to vote, this is easy to fix this issue with this subpopulation.

Moreover, we had a Voting Rights Act, but the republican overturned this law on the US Supreme Court.

Pass the voting rights act already. This is straightforward legislation that needs to pass to protect our DEMOCRACY.

Dems gonna have to find another way to steal the next election now.

R14, you have to show ID to register, and it is a well known fact that only white people have ID.

the government is going to have to give voter IDs to people. It will cost more money, but the republicans can finally S T FUCK UP about this. IF people do not have a passport, drivers license/id, then they should get a voter id. How many people in this? I do not know. Cannot be many.

let's make joe machin head explode, your voter id will be your government guarantee single payer insurance card.

We’ll vote for the Voting Rights act when it helps 3 old white white people in Wyoming!

The filibuster should not be used when voting on whether or not to debate an issue, which is all today's vote was. If the filibuster is used, it should only be used when voting on an actual bill...not the goddamn debate of a bill. Sheesh.

we really have to get rid of the filibuster, then pass:

- anti fascists and anti military industrial complex bill

-voting rights act

-campaign financial reform

-financial reforms

-universal health care

-etc.

these republicans are fucking fascists and fucking sadistic. We are going fall into the dark ages the next time the republicans sweep the elections. We are in serious trouble. We need better laws and institutions to stop this.

It wasn't even THE BILL they blocked - it was merely DEBATING the bill. They're horrible.

Not even a lowly 10 of them, not even the "good ones," would even vote 'yea' to debate the bill. That does, also, essentially kill the bill but the fact that none of them even voted to go ahead and publicly debate the bill is super fucked up... and depressing.

R10 Her fellow Arizona Democrat,Senator Mark Kelly, voted more with Trump than KS did. Never forget that fact.

Mark Kelly was elected in 2020 you gaslighting ass R27!

As usual, Democrats overreached on this bill. Election Day does not need to be a national holiday.

[quote] As usual, Democrats overreached on this bill. Election Day does not need to be a national holiday.

Yeah. If they removed that, then I am sure the Republicans would have voted for it.

What the Democrats need to do is play reverse psychology on the Republicans since all they seem to do is just play Opposite Day with no actual logic for their policies.

That's the point of having a debate on the bill, R30. That is what the rePubs refused to do...debate the bill. I'm sick of elected officials not doing their jobs and getting paid well to do so.

Democratic Fail. Act like Republicans and pass this in any way possible.

R9 But see...why are do WE have to compromise and they NEVER do?

I mean...I get it but that's some bullshit. And FUCK Manchin. They got to him.

I have a question. Why is it that whenever McConnell is Senate majority leader, he himself will nuke the filibuster in order to pack the courts with judges and get other nefarious Republican legislation passed, but Schumer cannot or will not do the same thing? Why can't Schumer just say, ok, this is voting rights we're dealing with here, so as the Senate majority leader, I will strike down the filibuster?

Because Manchin and Sinema, r35.

Oh, R18... DIAGF.

R34 & R36, Manchin and Sinema came through yesterday and voted in favor of bringing the bill to the floor.

Sinema was seen limping down the halls of Congress yesterday, surrounded by reporters and cackling when asked about the filibuster. This woman is evil. Manchin is evil too, but he's also stupid. The two historic Georgia senator wins in January are pretty much nullified by these two assholes. If Schumer had a backbone, he would pull the two of them into a room (along with any other Democrat currently wavering on filibuster reform) and tell them in no uncertain terms that if they do not work with the other Democrats in abolishing the filibuster for voting rights, then they will surely regret it.

[quote] Manchin and Sinema came through yesterday and voted in favor of bringing the bill to the floor

Yes, but isn't it all moot because the two of them won't agree to kill the filibuster?

[quote] Manchin and Sinema came through yesterday and voted in favor of bringing the bill to the floor.

Manchin and Sinema refuse to kill the filibuster.

SINema's constituents were outside of her AZ office in droves yesterday protesting her, and there's a TV ad running there touting how she's failing them. I'm convinced the bitch is a Republican plant. That clip of her on the Senate floor doing her cutesy thumbs down from last year makes my blood boil.

Any voter rights bill must be accompanied with free voter ID. What kind of crazy honor system is it when you do not need an ID to vote. It is harder to get a library card in this country then it is to vote.

Republicans will never try to compromise and work with Democrats. It's their way to stop any progress, especially if it would make Democrats look good. That's what they do. They have no solutions....only want to block and oppose. They're worse than a brick wall. At least you can take a sledgehammer to the wall. I'd like to take a sledgehammer to a lot of repub heads...starting with Bitch M.

Why doesn't he donate that 2 yards of baby skin under his chin to a burn unit?

Oh I forgot, he's never done anything for anybody.

This is evil

"What kind of crazy honor system is it when you do not need an ID to vote."

Every fucking time I've voted in person- in three different states for the past 40 years- they've asked for my driver's license to let me vote. With absentee voting, they ask for my dr. lic. # on the envelope.

Where you people live, Guam?

R41...That's the problem. The filibuster has to go...otherwise, nothing will get done.

I hate politics ……..

[quote]Any voter rights bill must be accompanied with free voter ID. What kind of crazy honor system is it when you do not need an ID to vote. It is harder to get a library card in this country then it is to vote.

Fuck you, Rethug troll at r43 - I've been voting for 49 years and I've never had to show any ID other than my signature, which is on the voter roll.

R44 And THAT'S what kills me about Manchin. He says "I don't want any more division"--while actively participating in it. WHY in the universes would he want to keep the filibuster? It doesn't help us.

Fuck if I know...^^ Manchin represents one of the reddest states in the country...the only way for him to get votes is to veer towards repubs...I'm guessing. He is useless for his party.

And Democrats, with no back-up plan because they want the Republicans to help them pass this legislation. Typical of my party. Dumb and lazy, but typical.

It's nice we have so many idea people in the Democratic party but it would be better if we had a lot less talkers and more ass-kicking DOERS. Tired of the talking and the tweeting and the "clapping back" on social media while failing at things like this while we see McConnell's potential return to power getting closer and a Republican super majority in the Supreme Court.

YES! A thousand times....YES!^^^ Dems have no backbone or "street fight" in them..repubs are dirty bastards. So nice to be so polite...

[quote] its not only black people effected but this.

Oh, dear!

Something like 70% of Manchin's constituents support this fucking bill. They also support, in almost the same number, getting rid of the filibuster.

If they won't get rid of it, they need to return it to the type where you have to literally stand there and talk, continually, for days to stop whatever you want to stop. Not just say the word "filibuster" and magically the vast minority of the country gets to stop everything the vast majority wants.

R50 A signature that anyone can fake! Lack of voter Is crazy. Almost all other major democracies require a voter ID. We should make voter ID free so that everyone can get one, not just letting people vote without any ID doesn’t make any fucking sense. No one can give one good reason why voter ID should not be a thing that doesn’t boil down to “black people are too stupid to get an ID” which is offensive as shit.

R57, in the Repug states that kept making more and more laws about voter ID, they also, simultaneously moved and/or closed the places near minority communities where you could get a voter ID. They also then made the laws to get the ID more difficult. I really can't believe that anyone would so readily buy into the racist Repug arguments and then parrot them unless they are a fucking Repug themselves.

Isn't is strange to you that there is so much focus on voter fraud that doesn't exist? Do you ever question why they don't need to prove there's ever been any fraud that needs to be corrected by more stringent requirements? Also, requiring an ID you have to pay for is a poll tax. Illegal. Start thinking for yourself instead of parroting Repug bullshit.

R58 Then fix that issue. But don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.

WHY IN THE FUCK AM I BEING MADE TO PAY FOR THESE RACIST, MOOCHING, FACIST PARASITES WHO DON'T EVEN HAVE THE POPULATION TO JUSTIFY THEIR POWER?

FASCIST*

How do you still not get that Republicans won't allow you to fix that issue?

R59, the entire point is that there is no baby in the bathwater. How do you not understand this? There is no problem to fix. The entire "problem" is that old white male Repugs can't get the votes from anyone but other old white males, so they have to disenfranchise everyone else.

R60 - because your team didn't sufficiently convince independents - the plurality of US voters - where it mattered.

Next time, either present hole or whip out huge cock to make the difference.

R57, no one has EVER attempted to fake my signature in 49 years of voting in - primaries and general elections at the local, state and federal levels.

This voter "fraud" requires voter ID meme is just bullshit peddled by the right wing to deter turnout.

We're not racists, but Blacks and Latins always vote the wrong way, which proves they're not competent to vote. We're just helping!

When will that turtle vanish from DC?

Now explain handing out water, purging impartial observers and selecting their own, and the state legislature overturning the will of the people if they don't like who the majority for - aka a DEM.

The only examples of voter fraud in 2020 were TRUMP supporters and they got CAUGHT. One idiot trying to vote on behalf of his dead mother.

All of this is based on a lie. How many fucking court cases must deplorables lose before you recognize how stupid and psychotic you look?

Also explain the one where they don't want to open early voting places on Sundays until after 1pm because black churches would go to church and then all go en masse to vote right after.

[quote] Manchin represents one of the reddest states in the country...the only way for him to get votes is to veer towards repubs...I'm guessing

That's bullshit. I guarantee you that 90% if the people that voted for him don't even know what the filibuster is. And couldn't care less about it. I'm tired of the stupid fucking press telling this "tale"

It's not like anyone is calling his office, "we voted for you Joe Manchin, you BETTER keep that filibuster"

The Poor People's Campaign were in WV last week marching for voting rights, and many of Manchin's constituents were there protesting him.