What’s Next For Voting Rights? Disappointed Civil Rights Leaders Won’t Give Up After Manchin, Sinema ‘Let Down’ Americans
Civil rights leaders expressed disappointment at the U.S. Senate’s failure to advance key voting rights legislation and change the filibuster rule, both of which they say are needed to protect democracy and ensure equal access to the ballot in what is expected to be a pivotal election year.
But they were also resolute in their will to keep whatever momentum remains from the president’s last-minute push to ultimately enact both the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act into law.
Whether that happens ahead of or following the 2022 midterm elections is anyone’s guess. But civil rights groups on Thursday, following Democrats’ major defeat in the Senate, separately expressed a united vision of refusing top back down from their relentless efforts to reform an election system that has recently been inundated with a wave of Republican-led laws that make it particularly harder for Black and brown populations to vote.
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