Biden Expresses 'Disappointment' With SCOTUS Voting Decision, Reemphasizes Need For S1

[LetMyPeopleVote]

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President Joe Biden expressed his “deep disappointment” with the Supreme Court’s major voting rights case decision Thursday, in which the six conservative justices further weakened the Voting Rights Act.

All three liberal justices dissented, led by Justice Elena Kagan who wrote a lengthy lamentation about the majority’s decision and Court’s history of helping keep minority voters from the ballot box.

In a span of just eight years, the Court has now done severe damage to two of the most important provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — a law that took years of struggle and strife to secure,” Biden wrote in a statement.

He reemphasized the need to pass federal voting safeguards: namely, the sweeping democracy reform package called the For The People Act and legislation meant to restore the Voting Rights Act to its full power, the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. The For the People Act was most recently filibustered by Republicans in the Senate, and the John Lewis Act likely faces the same fate once it’s completed later this year.

[SoCalDavidS]

1. S1?

Don't make me laugh. S1 is going Nowhere. That's reality. Not going to get 51 votes to proceed, let alone 60.

[drray23]

2. thats why you are not an experienced politician and they are.

Thats why you are not an experienced politician and they are. Obviously, They will need to craft a deal in the democratic caucus to allow for an exception to fillibuster and pass it (only 50 are required to change rules) . We are slowly getting there as Manchin is starting to get frustrated about his "republican friends" blocking everything. Nobody is expecting that we would get to 60.

[SoCalDavidS]

4. Manchin

I don't sense much frustration from him.

And he's far from the only Democrat opposed to eliminating the FB. There are probably a handful.

We'll see. But I'm not getting my hopes up for anything to happen.

[drray23]

5. That is true. What I am expecting is that those handful of dems who are lukewarm

wont want to take the heat especially after the SCOTUS gutted the voting rights act even more.
They are happy to be in the background and let Manchin/Sinema take the heat. If we flip those, I doubt another dem will want to block this.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. The Manchin version would fix many of the problems of this decision

[UTUSN]

6. K&R

[StarfishSaver]

7. I'm sure his reaction is considerably more than mere "disappointment"

But it's really nice to have a president who doesn't feel the need to vent every emotion in public or personally attack courts and judges when he doesn't like their decisions.