{"id":1183797,"date":"2022-01-03T14:34:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T19:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1183797"},"modified":"2022-01-03T14:34:58","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T19:34:58","slug":"schumer-threatens-to-eliminate-filibuster-to-pass-voting-rights-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/schumer-threatens-to-eliminate-filibuster-to-pass-voting-rights-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Schumer Threatens To Eliminate Filibuster To Pass Voting Rights Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fschumer-threatens-to-eliminate-filibuster-to-pass-voting-rights-bill%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1183797&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Dem bill would restore voting rights to felons, require states to provide mail-in voting<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1236605220_736x514-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"denied:data:image\/gif;base64, R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1236605220_736x514.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1236605220_736x514-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1236605220_736x514-703x491.jpg 703w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tSenate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) \/ Getty\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/cole-carnick\/\" title=\"Posts by Cole Carnick\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Cole Carnick<\/a> \u2022 January 3, 2022 2:16 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) on Monday threatened to scrap the upper chamber&#8217;s filibuster to pass Democrats&#8217; controversial election reform bill.<\/p>\n<p>Schumer said the Senate will &#8220;debate and consider changes&#8221; to Senate procedures by Jan. 17 to overcome the filibuster&#8217;s 60-vote threshold, saying Republicans have exploited the rule to &#8220;embarrass the will of majority&#8221; and block Democrats&#8217; so-called voting rights legislation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In June, August, October, and once more in November, Republicans weaponized arcane Senate rules to prevent even a simple debate on how to protect our democracy,&#8221; Schumer <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Dear-Colleague-1.3.22.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> in a &#8220;Dear Colleague&#8221; letter. &#8220;We must adapt. The Senate must evolve, like it has many times before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Schumer&#8217;s letter comes as the Freedom to Vote Act languishes in the Senate amid staunch Republican opposition. Without a change to Senate rules, Democrats would need 10 Republicans to back their legislation\u2014a number they have thus far failed to reach.<\/p>\n<p>Sens. Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema&#8217;s (D., Ariz.) opposition to eliminating the filibuster has stymied previous efforts to alter Senate voting procedures. A group of Democratic senators, however, have in recent weeks tried to persuade the two lawmakers to back reforms that would weaken the vote threshold, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/01\/03\/schumer-threatens-vote-on-senate-rules-change-in-january-526394\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according<\/a> to <em>Politico<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The Democrats&#8217; election reform bill would restore voting rights to convicted felons, require states to offer mail-in voting, and mandate two weeks of early voting, among other measures. Republicans have long opposed the legislation, calling it a partisan power grab.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is clearly an effort by one party to rewrite the rules of the political system,&#8221; Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-senate-election\/top-senate-republican-blasts-sweeping-u-s-election-reform-bill-as-power-grab-idUSKBN2BG2T7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> in March 2021.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats Dem bill would restore voting rights to felons, require states to provide mail-in voting  Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D., N.Y.) \/ Getty &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":177,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1183797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1183797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}