For the third time this year, Senate Republicans last week filibustered legislation that would have protected voting rights from GOP efforts around the country to restrict them. Democrats unanimously supported it this time, after the measure was scaled back to satisfy moderates. Yet the minority party was able to thwart the will of the Senate majority — not to mention the majority of the country — on an issue more critical than ever after former President Donald Trump’s unprecedented attempt to overturn last year’s election results.
How much more evidence do Democratic holdouts need that the filibuster is damaging democracy before they’ll finally agree to dump it?
America’s democracy is in dangerous straits right now. Trump’s attempted overthrow of the election was an outrage that should have, finally, broken his spell over the Republican Party. Instead, much of the party sees it as incentive to restrict voting rights in hopes of steering future elections to their favor.
