It’s another failure for Democrats to pass a voting reform bill.
The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, a voting reform bill that Democrats have promoted as a key piece of their legislative agenda, failed to muster enough Republican votes to break a filibuster in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, marking another unsuccessful effort by Democrats to pass a voting reform bill.SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty ImagesThe Senate voted 50-49 to pass the bill, falling well short of the 60 votes needed to break the filibuster.
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski was the only Republican to vote in favor of the bill, which Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell slammed as a “go-nowhere bill” that heThe act sought to reinstate a critical piece of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that the Supreme Court struck down in 2013, which required states and localities with a history of voter discrimination to receive “preclearance” from the Justice Department and federal courts before changing voting laws.
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