National Public Radio | “Protesters on Saturday also showed support for the For The People Act, which focuses on ending the gerrymandering of congressional districts, setting mandates for early and mail-in voting and increasing transparency in campaign financing."
The Hill | “Given today’s decision and the nearly 30 anti-voting bills that have become law nationwide, Congress must do its job and pass both the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act,” he said. “We will not sit idly by while corrupt politicians try to silence us. We will see you in the courts, in Congress and in the streets.”
Associated Press | The Democratic Party’s hopes of passing a massive overhaul of elections may have suffered a fatal blow when West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin became the first member of the party to say he wouldn’t support it, ensuring the bill, known as HR1, would not pass the Senate...
The Washington Post | With yet another GOP effort to restrict voting underway in Texas, President Biden is now calling on Congress to act in the face of the Republican “assault on democracy.”
The Washington Post | At stake is the For the People Act, which already passed the House. It would guarantee broad access to the ballot; a more transparent, democratic political money system; and an end to partisan gerrymanders...
Newsweek | The For the People Act passed the House in March without a single Republican voting in favor of it. The bill remains stalled in the Senate, where its potential to progress is unclear due in part to unified Republican opposition...
The Hill | President Biden in his address to Congress on Tuesday called on lawmakers to pass a sweeping set of elections and voting reforms that hold the potential to reshape the U.S. political landscape, from how campaigns are financed to the laws governing the decennial redistricting process...
The Washington Post | White supremacists are closer to restoring Jim Crow than at any time in memory. They are staging an assault on the right to vote: reducing early voting, restricting registration and reversing the rollout of voting by mail...
Huffington Post | As Congress debates the passage of a sweeping reform bill targeting voting rights, campaign finance, redistricting and ethics, Democrats in the House and Senate have the name of a colleague who is no longer with them on their lips...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution | The floodgates against voter suppression are quickly opening to cleanse the corporate conscience. It is imperative that corporations use their power to promote passage of the For the People Act (HR 1 and S 1) and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act (HR 4)...