Kyrsten Sinema Dooms Democrats' Voting Rights Push [View all]

Source: HuffPost

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) took to the Senate floor on Thursday to tell her fellow Democrats that she would not support changing the chamber's filibuster rules in order to pass voting rights legislation.

"There is no need for me to restate my position," Sinema said, as she explained she opposed changing filibuster rules that require a 60-vote supermajority to pass most laws as it would deepen the "spiraling division" in the country.

"Demands to eliminate [the 60-vote filibuster] threshold from whichever party holds the fleeting majority amount to a group of people separated on two sides of a canyon, shouting that solution to their colleagues," Sinema said. "And that makes the rift with wider and deeper."

The dramatic speech came as President Joe Biden headed to the Senate to speak with members of the Democratic caucus about the urgency of changing the filibuster rules in order to pass a voting rights bill by a simple majority vote. The speech diminishes hopes Democrats have of enacting legislation to combat the wave of voter suppression bills passed by Republicans on the inspiration of ex-President Donald Trump's election fraud lies in the states they control.

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Its interesting that she doesn't care if she is the lone vote to destroy the greatest democracy on Earth as Manchin seems to be backing Biden on this one but for how long who knows.