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BumRushDaShow

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16. If we can hold the Senate

Reply to LaMouffette (Reply #13)

Fri Oct 25, 2024, 02:48 PM

Oct 25

It only takes a simple majority to change the Rule.

Because we had such a narrow margin (in 2020, it was a "tie", but we had "control" because the VP was a (D) and 2022, a 1 vote difference), the actions of those 2 Senators meant we didn't have 51 votes to change the Rule and not only pass that, but the other voting rights bill -

H.R.4 - John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2021

where the above bill would have restored what John Roberts threw out from the original 1965 Voting Rights Act (i.e., Sects. 4 & 5 that required "pre-clearance" of changes made to anything to do with voting/elections for a certain list of states), PLUS codify Roe with this -

H.R.3755 - Women's Health Protection Act of 2021

All 3 of those bills had passed the House (when we still had the majority) and died in the Senate.