In March, the Democrats pushed a voting rights legislation in the House of Representatives. Currently in the Senate, it is a sprawling piece of law over which legal challenges loom according to key experts. This article published in The New York Times is by Adam Liptak. Here is an excerpt:

If the sweeping voting rights bill that the House passed in March overcomes substantial hurdles in the Senate to become law, it would reshape American elections and represent a triumph for Democrats eager to combat the wave of election restrictions moving through Republican-controlled state legislatures.

But passage of the bill, known as H.R. 1, would end a legislative fight and start a legal war that could dwarf the court challenges aimed at the Affordable Care Act over the past decade.

“I have no doubt that if H.R. 1 passes, we’re going to have a dozen major Supreme Court cases on different pieces of it,” said Nicholas Stephanopoulos, a law professor at Harvard.

Read the full story here. Also see related Democracy Chronicles articles like those on Voter Access, Election History, or even seen our section on American Democracy.