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From the NYTimes:
Mr. Biden now faces a choice: Scale back his ambitions for addressing voting rights or abandon hopes of a bipartisan compromise and instead seek to jam it through on a partisan vote in the equally divided chamber by further rolling back one of the foundations of Senate tradition, the filibuster.
This cannot be a difficult choice.
If the Democrats fail to pass H.R.1, then the Republicans will succeed in suppressing the Democratic vote in states with Republican-controlled legislatures (361 bills to do that being considered right now). They will also succeed in gerrymandering away Democratic seats based on the new census. 2023 will thus bring a Republican-controlled Congress — not because more Americans would vote Republican, but because Republicans have succeeded in rigging the system to burden Democratic votes.
Senator Manchin’s amended H.R.4 would not fix this. Even if it were constitutional — which Guy Charles and I have argued it is not, under this Court’s precedent—no Republican is discussing making that…
