THe New York Times is joining left-wing activist groups to push President Biden to the left and remove the filibuster to defend “voting rights,” defined as Democratic-helpful changes to state voting laws, while emotionally labeling Republican attempts to secure the vote as “voter suppression.”
A front-page “news analysis” on Wednesday by reporters Nick Corasaniti and Reid Epstein hit Biden for inaction: “As a President Waited, States Curbed Voting.” The online headline deck: “A Voting Rights Push, as States Make Voting Harder — President Biden says he won’t keep “quiet” any longer about protecting ballot access. But voting rights groups say he should’ve raised his voice months ago.”
This would be wrong. They seem to have missed Joe Biden’s insane “Jim Crow 2.0” talk in 2021. However, the TimesThat stuff should be buried.
Democrat journalists write as if voting had no history before 2020, and that temporary, pandemic-inspired changes like drop boxes and mass mail-in voting are the eternal standard and are now permanent features of the landscape.
In the nine months since Republicans in Georgia muscled through a host of new voting restrictions, 18 other states have enacted 33 such laws. More than 30 states have concluded their redistricting processes, with extreme partisan gerrymandering locking in Republican control over legislatures in the electoral battlegrounds of Georgia, North Carolina, Ohio and Texas for another 10 years.
On Tuesday, President Biden urged Democrats to change the Senate’s rules to open a path — now blocked by the threat of a Republican filibuster — for federal legislation that would roll back some of the more egregious new voting restrictions and rein in hyperpartisan gerrymandering.
According to Mr. Biden, calm persuasion is not an option in a voting law, which Democrats have been discussing for almost a year.
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In this spirit, Biden demanded the removal of the threshold of 60 votes for voting rights bills. This was a move he opposed during his campaign, and which he resisted for most of his first year in office.
The dark tones are a sign of the importance Times Taken when discussing benign Republican legislation within the US.
While Biden waited for the change, many state laws regarding voting were altered. Further, voter suppression might have been all but guaranteed.
Experts warn that confusion over changes to voting laws, accessibility, location, and times could lead to citizens missing their chance to vote. Harsher penalties for voters and for election officials could deter people from voting for fear of prosecution over an honest mistake.
Meanwhile, Michael Shear was giving Biden cover for breaking his long-standing defense of the Senate filibuster rules in the name of Democratic partisanship in “Biden Defense of Filibuster Withers Under Partisan Rancor.”
President Biden’s decision to call for changing the Senate’s rules to pass voting rights protections was a long time coming. Maybe it was too long, according to his disaffected supporters.
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Those rules, he said with admiration more than a decade ago, were about “compromise and moderation,” a core part of his political identity. Supporting their change would mean admitting that his principles had been lost in a city ravaged by partisan violence.
That admission was made Tuesday.
Evidently, only Republicans are partisans.
Some presidents might have realized that the Senate is no longer an institution where political partisanship can be ignored for the benefit of the country by supporting changes in Senate rules protecting voting rights.
That is certainly the view of many in his party….
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