'Voting rights advocates will eventually have to play the cards dealt to them by the system as it currently exists,' writes ed_kilgore
Joe Biden speaks on voting rights in Philadelphia on July 13. Photo: Michelle Gustafson/Bloomberg via Getty Images There has been an underlying disagreement within the mostly Democratic coalition favoring voting rights that was nicely captured in this New York Times report on Friday:
Both sides in this argument are partly wrong. Those who expect Joe Biden to force the For the People Act or the John Lewis Voting Rights Act through the Senate via some major revision in the ability to filibuster are probably expecting the impossible.
Yes, it is intensely frustrating that Biden cannot bring himself to come out forthrightly for filibuster reform, but it probably doesn’t matter since it is not happening unless the Democratic Senate Conference gets bigger, making senators like Manchin and Sinema irrelevant on the subject. So at some point voting rights advocates need to focus on that goal.
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