For The People Inaction

What A Day

Crooked Media

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4.6 • 12K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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The vote to open a debate about the For The People Act, which would make it easier to vote, strengthen campaign finance rules, and end partisan gerrymandering, was blocked in the Senate yesterday with all 50 Republicans united against it. With moderate Democrats like Manchin and Sinema refusing to budge on the filibuster, the future of voting rights is uncertain. We spoke with Crooked Media's Political Director Shaniqua McClendon about what might happen next. And in headlines: Biden won’t hit his July 4th vaccine goal, Teamsters start nationwide project to unionize Amazon workers, and L.A. County wants its residents to stop feeding peacocks. Show Notes: Vote Save America: HR1 or We're Fucked – https://votesaveamerica.com/forthepeople/ For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/whataday

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0:00.0	It's Wednesday June 23rd. I'm Hila Hughes.
0:09.0	And I'm getting in rest again. This is what a day, the only news podcast that is produced via painstaking by partisan compromise.
0:15.5	Yeah, no one ends up happy in the end, but everyone's point in fingers, so that's how you make a pod.
0:21.5	At least we've done something.
0:24.5	At least there's something you can point to.
0:31.5	On today's show, Crookets own Shinikwamaklinden, breaks down yesterday's failed attempt in the Senate to move forward on voting rights legislation.
0:40.5	Then we'll have some headlines. But first the latest.
0:44.5	Right now it is a fact that voting rights are under assault in America.
0:48.5	This is a bill that was introduced to enhanced partisan messaging.
0:54.5	Apparently they like targeting groups of individuals to prevent them from voting.
0:59.5	I think the American people do not want this and they do not deserve to be the recipients of such harmful policy.
1:05.5	So my Republican colleagues, this is not the end of the line for this bill. This is only the beginning.
1:13.5	Those are some of the senators yesterday debating about the for the people act that is the sweeping voting rights bill that we've been talking about on the show.
1:21.5	The vote to just open a debate about it not even pass it split 50 50 in the Senate with Democrat Joe Manchin joining his colleagues after months of pressure.
1:29.5	However, all 50 Republicans reunited against it.
1:32.5	Yeah, so that means it fell short of the necessary 60 votes to break the filibuster.
1:37.5	It came at a crucial moment when this bill was going to be used to override an unending series of laws by GOP led state legislatures that limit voting options across the country.
1:46.5	Yeah, so what happens next is a big question now.
1:49.5	Some Democrats have dangled the threat of trying to end the filibuster as they have for some time.
1:53.5	But senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have only defended it in recent days even in the face of this continued opposition.
2:00.5	It's possible that attorney general Marik Garland and the DOJ could actually be salad with trying to combat voting rights restrictions that have popped up all over the country.
2:09.5	Yeah, and for more on what happened yesterday and what's next crooked media's political director, Shiniko McClendon is with us. Thanks for joining us.
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