4 Sneaky Ways GOP Senators Will Try To Block Voting Protections This Week |
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4 Sneaky Ways GOP Senators Will Try To Block Voting Protections This Week
One way Republican leadership could avoid passing the legislation is by avoiding the use of a talking filibuster.
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The Republican-controlled Senate began debate Tuesday on the SAVE America Act, legislation that would require documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote and photo ID to cast a ballot. Provisions included in the bill, which has already passed the House, have widespread national support among Republicans, Independents, and Democrats.
Getting the legislation to pass the Senate is a feat — but not because it’s impossible. Rather because Senate Majority Leader John Thune appears ready to “go out of his way to set up a 60-vote obstacle which will doom the bill to failure but allow puke Republicans to pretend to support it since they know it’s dead anyway,” as The Federalist co-founder and CEO Sean Davis explained in a post on X.
Here’s how Republican senators could try to block the critical legislation.
Avoid The Talking Filibuster
One way Republican leadership could avoid passing the legislation is by avoiding the use of a talking filibuster, which would require any opposing senators to talk on the floor continuously in order to delay a vote. Once Democrats (and perhaps a few RINO’s) run out of their two-speech limit and exhaust themselves, the SAVE America Act would go to a simple majority vote.
But declining to use that option means the only way to break a filibuster would be to use cloture, which means the Senate would need to get 60 votes to end the filibuster.
Senior Legal Fellow at the Conservative Partnership Institute Cleta Mitchell warned against that approach in a post on X: “We do not want a CLOTURE vote. If........