Manchin's Voting Rights Plan Would Do Nothing About The Wave Now Of Voter Suppression Bills

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https://news.yahoo.com/joe-manchin-for-the-people-act-john-lewis-voting-rights-advancement-act-120000782.html

While the rest of the Senate Democrats fight for a sweeping voting rights protection bill, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is pushing for another bill that would restore elements of the Voting Rights Act based on the premise that at least one Republican supports it. But the bill Manchin wants Democrats to prioritize, though important, would do nothing about the present attack on voting rights in Republican-run states. Manchin and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) sent a letter to Senate colleagues seeking bipartisan support for a not-yet-introduced bill, dubbed the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, to restore the current Voting Rights Act’s pre-clearance authority, which would subject any proposed changes in voting rights in certain states and election jurisdictions to Justice Department review to guard against discriminatory effects.

He also said last week that he won’t support the For the People Act, the package of voting rights, campaign finance, redistricting and ethics reforms that is the priority bill for Democrats. Manchin argued that the bill named after Lewis, the late civil rights leader and Georgia congressman, is more likely to gain bipartisan support. Republicans largely oppose the For the People Act, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has vowed to kill it and all nine GOP members voted against it in committee. But Manchin’s proposed bill would need the backing of at least nine more Republicans, besides Murkowski, to avoid being blocked by a filibuster. That is highly unlikely. Plus, prioritizing the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act would put it and the other voting reforms that Lewis championed in peril.

Manchin’s strategy is already facing some pushback. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) https://theintercept.com/2021/05/19/voting-election-reform-chuck-schumer-joe-manchin/" target="_blank">quickly rejected Manchin’s prioritization of one bill over the other in comments to reporters. Schumer has promised a floor vote on the For the People Act (also known as H.R. 1/S. 1) and has stated that “everything is on the table,” including changing the Senate’s filibuster rules, which Manchin opposes, in order to pass it. First, the measure Manchin wants to prioritize, while key to protecting voting rights in the future, would, in its most recent form, apply only to future legislation, not the avalanche of voter suppression bills being passed and enacted now in Republican-run states. The For the People Act, on the other hand, would override many of the provisions of this legislation by mandating a set floor of voting access requirements for all states to meet.

Four Democratic House members sent a “Dear Colleague” letter on Thursday rebuking Manchin’s position while calling for Congress to pass both bills. “Any proposal that shuns H.R. 1 in favor of nationwide preclearance alone is either dangerously naive or simply misinformed about what is happening in states across the country,” Reps. Mondaire Jones (N.Y.), Val Demings (Fla.), Colin Allred (Texas) and Nikema Williams (Ga.) wrote in the letter. “Preclearance does nothing about the voter suppression laws that states have already enacted. Preclearance can only block new restrictions,” they added. “It does nothing to repair the damage states like Georgia and Florida have already done, and that other states will do prior to passage of the John Lewis Voting Rights Act.”

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