The Democratic party has not given up on its push to have its sweeping voting rights bill dubbed For the People Act or H.R.1. passed into law. It may seem that the Senate is the biggest hurdle but they are aware that the bill’s success largely depends on a smaller decision-making group, the Supreme Court. Brian Slodysko had this information in the Associated Press. Here is an excerpt:
As congressional Democrats gear up for another bruising legislative push to expand voting rights, much of their attention has quietly focused on a small yet crucial voting bloc with the power to scuttle their plans: the nine Supreme Court justices.
Democrats face dim prospects for passing voting legislation through a narrowly divided Congress, where an issue that once drew compromise has become an increasingly partisan flashpoint. But as they look to reinstate key parts of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a landmark civil rights-era law diminished over the past decade by Supreme Court rulings, they have accepted the reality that any bill they pass probably will wind up in litigation — and ultimately back before the high court.
The task of building a more durable Voting Rights Act got harder when the high court’s conservative majority on July 1 issued its second major ruling in eight years narrowing the law’s once robust power.
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