Democrats just got one step closer to saving voting rights, thanks to a Senate loophole

by Hayes Brown

The threat from Republican senators to filibuster voting rights legislation has prevented Democrats from even bringing the issue to the floor for debate — until now. In a "beautifully clever" move, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer found an arcane workaround called "message between the houses," writes Hayes Brown.

Though the method would leave Republicans powerless to stop voting rights legislation from reaching the floor, what happens after that remains unknown. "For all the high drama, the stakes are very real here," Brown writes. "The state-level assault on voting rights from Republicans is real and will have implications for our democracy for decades to come."

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