President Joe Biden's hopes of overhauling the US election system look doomed after two of his fellow Democrats came out against them.
No Republicans support the two Democratic-proposed plans, the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. Among other things, the bills would impose federal standards on elections, ushering in the most sweeping reform in a generation. Ms Sinema, an Arizona senator, and another Democrat, West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, both said they would not support nuking the filibuster rule.
"We must never, ever, ever, ever tear down the only wall, the necessary fence, that this nation has against the excesses of the executive branch and the resultant haste and tyranny of the majority," Mr Byrd said.Supreme Court outlawed his national vaccine mandateDemocrats have argued the voting bills are needed to counter recent voting laws enacted in state legislatures controlled by Republicans, who maintain that election security needs to be boosted.
Well for one Manchin is a closet Republican
The West is now so weak it deserves to lose. There appears to be nothing left to stop the inevitable decline into world autocracy & totalitarianism.
I don't know why politicians think the filibuster is democratic. It's a smartass way of blocking a majority, and they do it with a smug grin on their faces, as if their own procedural BS is what really matters.
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