Elections

"It's completely insane that some Dems (ahem Manchin/Sinema) would rather keep the Jim Crow filibuster than stop an avalanche of Jim Crow 2.0 voter suppression laws."

Still, as long as Senate Republicans refuse to support the bill, passing electoral reforms depends on eliminating the filibuster, which conservative Democrats have yet to endorse.

Gov. Greg Gianforte signed bills eliminating same-day voter registration and toughens the state's voter ID requirement.

"This kind of legislation... introduces more problems and more politics," said one historian critic. "It is telling people how to think, not to think."

The Republican-controlled state Legislature passed a law on Thursday that requires ID to vote by mail, shortens early voting in runoff elections, and makes it a crime to give out food and drinks to people waiting in line to vote.

Voting rights advocates have been pressuring major corporations in the state to oppose Georgia Republicans' voter suppression bills.

"Surprising advocates, legislators, and voters with a nearly 100-page bill is undemocratic and unacceptable."

Democrats can eliminate the filibuster to pass legislation to stop voter suppression, said journalist Ari Berman, "or they can allow [the] GOP to undermine democracy for the next decade."

The GOP opposition to the pro-democracy H.R. 1 bill is built on misinformation.

It comes right after Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election with his colleagues in Congress.