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| credit: KAL, Boston Globe, Wackydoodle sez: If you pull the right lever, you win! |
Georgia's legislature, dominated by the POS, is racing to pass voter laws intended to restrict minority participation in elections. After the party lost two Senate seats in 2020, they want to make sure there is not a repeat performance by minority voters in 2022. Because Senator Warnock (D-GA) is filling in an uncompleted six year term, he is up for re-election in the off-year. Democrats have little chance of stopping this new Jim Crow at the state level. Its hope rests on passing election reform bills, HR 1 and 4, in the US House and Senate.
Here is the Catch-22: these bills have passed the House where Speaker Pelosi has a ten vote edge, but the Senate is evenly divided and at least two DINOs have expressed opposition to modifying the filibuster rule. Majority Leader Schumer cannot use reconciliation to pass the election reform legislation since it is obviously not budget related. Majority Leader Schumer and progressives are going to have to resort to some heavy leverage to get the filibuster modified in some form to allow passage of the voting right bills or risk loosing the Senate majority in 2024. A difficult choice, but that is the state of play the Repugnants are counting on.
