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Senate Democrats are connecting the one-year anniversary of the Capitol insurrection to their push for voting rights legislation—even if it means reforming Senate rules in the process.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced in a letter to his colleagues this week that the chamber would vote by Jan. 17 on whether to change the Senate rules if Republicans filibuster voting rights legislation in the coming days.
To pass voting rights legislation—something Democrats see as crucial to their success in the 2022 midterm elections—they would need to first remove or weaken the filibuster, which Republicans have used to stymie much of their legislative agenda. In his letter, Schumer specifically linked Jan. 6—the day that Trump supporters stormed the U.S. capitol, fueled by the former president’s false claims of a “rigged election”—to the Democrats’ voting rights legislation.
“Make no mistake about it: this week Senate Democrats will make clear that what happened on January 6th and the one-sided, partisan actions being taken by Republican-led state legislatures across the country are directly linked,” Schumer wrote. “We hope our Republican colleagues change course and work with us. But if they do not, the Senate will debate and consider changes to Senate rules on or before January 17, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, to protect the...
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