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Analysis: How Republicans are driving the national agenda, even though Democrats hold unified control of government
Republican-controlled state legislatures across the country are approving a wave of new voting restrictions on virtually party-line votes that require only a simple majority to pass. The US Supreme Court has likewise decided the key voting rights rulings that helped trigger this surge of state legislation on a party-line, majority-vote basis over the past decade.
[ cnn.com ]A push for voting rights is expected to crash in the Senate, with potentially humiliating implications for Biden's presidency
Democrats appear certain to add another failure to their list of missed deadlines and thwarted legacy goals this week, with a push for voting rights bills expected to crash in the Senate with humiliating implications for Joe Biden's presidency.
[ cnn.com ]An Arizona Trump rally and a voting rights march underscore the fight for democracy
Two events -- a Trump rally and a voting rights march -- in the same state on the same day this Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend encapsulated a nation at odds with itself about the future of its democracy.
[ cnn.com ]Trump supporters praise Sinema's voting rights stance
Two events -- a Trump rally and a voting rights march -- in the same state on the same day of Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend encapsulated a nation at odds with itself about the future of its democracy. CNN's Donie O'Sullivan reports.
[ cnn.com ]MLK's eldest son: We want legislation, not celebration
When our daughter, Yolanda Renee King, was born in 2008, her voting rights were more secure than they are today, on the holiday to commemorate her grandfather Martin Luther King Jr.'s 93rd birthday.
[ cnn.com ]Jake Tapper reveals the reason Trump went to Arizona
Jake Tapper looks at former President Donald Trump's continued efforts to restrict voting rights in states across the nation on the weekend the country remembers civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
[ cnn.com ]The White House just put out a baffling polling memo
• Analysis: Biden and Democrats run up against relentless conservative power • Opinion: Is Biden's presidency doomed? • Schumer says Senate will take up voting rights Tuesday
[ cnn.com ]Biden and Democrats run up against relentless conservative power
• Analysis: Two events show how limited Biden's power actually is • Schumer says Senate will take up voting rights Tuesday as Democrats face grim odds
[ cnn.com ]Kyrsten Sinema not backing down on the filibuster in fatal blow to Democrats' voting rights fight
• Biden vows to keep fighting on voting rights but concedes 'I don't know whether we can get this done'
[ cnn.com ]Analysis: Did Joe Biden go too far in his voting rights speech? This Democratic Senator thinks so.
President Joe Biden didn't mince words earlier this week in a speech announcing his support for changing the filibuster rules to allow a simple majority to pass new voting rights legislation.
[ cnn.com ]There's talk of the 'nuclear option' as Democrats push to pass voting rights legislation and Republicans scramble to make it more difficult to cast a ballot
• Biden to amp up the pressure on the Senate to change filibuster rules for voting rights during Atlanta speech • LIVE UPDATES: Biden says he and Stacey Abrams spoke 'at length' this morning and are on 'the same page' • Opinion: My grandfather taught me this crucial life lesson
[ cnn.com ]Biden to amp up the pressure on the Senate to change filibuster rules for voting rights during Atlanta speech
President Joe Biden is traveling to Atlanta on Tuesday to deliver a major speech on voting rights, looking to turn up the heat on reluctant senators as Democrats face pressure to pass two pieces of pending legislation opposed by nearly all Republicans on Capitol Hill.
[ cnn.com ]Georgia voting rights groups boycott Biden's Atlanta speech
A coalition of voting rights groups in Georgia announced Monday that they will not attend events surrounding President Joe Biden's expected visit to Atlanta, urging for concrete action instead of what they called a "photo op."
[ cnn.com ]Black Voters Matter co-founder: Biden is all talk
Cliff Albright, co-founder of Black Voters Matter, explains why voting rights groups are boycotting Biden's speech in Georgia.
[ cnn.com ]Biden confronts challenges to democracy at home and abroad this week
President Joe Biden's fresh vow to save democracy faces an immediate test at home and abroad this week, with a long-shot voting rights push and the most critical US diplomacy with Russia since the Cold War.
[ cnn.com ]Lani Guinier, voting rights champion and former assistant attorney general nominee, dies at 71
Lani Guinier, a legal scholar and champion for voting rights who was once nominated to be assistant attorney general by then-President Bill Clinton, died on Friday, her cousin, Sherrie Russell-Brown, confirmed to CNN. She was 71.
[ cnn.com ]Senate Democrats vow they'll pass voting rights legislation with or without Republicans. Here's what their proposals would do
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has set the stage for a showdown this month over voting rights -- pledging to muscle through sweeping new federal legislation aimed at counteracting moves by Republicans in state capitols to restrict access to the ballot.
[ cnn.com ]Biden to deliver voting rights speech next week in Atlanta
President Joe Biden is planning to deliver a speech on voting rights during a visit to Atlanta next week, officials say, traveling to the cradle of the civil rights movement to shine a brighter light on election reform in advance of the national holiday celebrating the life of Martin Luther King Jr.
[ cnn.com ]Opinion: The battle that will define America in 2022 began in 1865
Two opposing historical forces have the power to shape American democracy in 2022. These worldviews took shape in the aftermath of the Civil War and have, ever since, undergirded America's legal and legislative systems, national policies on voting rights and criminal justice and our understanding (or, at times, denial of) of historical memory since 1865.
[ cnn.com ]Biden tells Ukrainian president US 'will respond decisively if Russia further invades'
• Analysis: Why Democrats haven't given up on Manchin and voting rights
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