Will the Most Important Voting-Rights Bill Since 1965 Die in the Senate?

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🗓️ 29 March 2021

⏱️ 19 minutes

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No sooner had Joe Biden won the Presidential election than Republican state legislatures began introducing measures to make voting more difficult in any number of ways, most of which will suppress Democratic turnout at the polls. Stacey Abrams, of Georgia, has called the measures “Jim Crow in a suit and tie.” Congress has introduced the For the People Act, known as H.R. 1. Jelani Cobb looks at how the bill goes beyond even the 1965 Voting Rights Act in its breadth, and how it will likely fare in the Senate. And Jeannie Suk Gersen speaks with David Remnick about the Supreme Court’s views on voting rights. The Court is currently weighing an Arizona case that will help decide what really counts as discrimination in a voting restriction.

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1:17.2	staff writer Jelani Cobb about HR1, a bill before Congress that would expand voting rights
1:23.9	nationwide. Then Jeannie Sook Gerson, a New Yorker contributor, discusses the Arizona
1:29.7	voting rights case currently before the Supreme Court.
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1:59.2	then Republican state legislatures began introducing
2:02.4	measures to make voting much more difficult.
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