Will Joe Manchin let Chuck Schumer abolish the filibuster to nationalize election laws and establish Democratic one-party rule in the Senate?
District of Columbia, West Virginia | June 9, 2021
This month, the U.S. Senate will be taking up S. 1, legislation to nationalize U.S. election law and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is setting the stage for a showdown on the fate of the filibuster, which has stood since 1917.
Having failed to get much moving in the way of major legislation — Democrats need 10 Republicans to support any permanent changes of law — Schumer told reporters last week, “I think the events of the last few days, probably made every member of our caucus, realize that a lot of our Republican colleagues are not willing to work with us on a whole lot of issues, even issues where we tried to be bipartisan.”
On the eliminating the filibuster, Schumer promised, “everything is on the table.”
Democrats have made clear that their signature legislation of the Biden presidency is nationalizing election law — they’re H.R. 1 and S. 1 in the House and Senate, respectively, indicating their top priority among House and Senate Democratic leaders — and the only question is whether they have enough votes…
(Excerpts from the Daily Torch)