Jamaal Bowman was arrested Thursday during a voting rights protest at the US Capitol, his office said in a statement.... " Today, Congressman Jamaal Bowman joined a voting rights non-violent direct action at the North Barricade of the US Capitol Building and was arrested by the US Capitol Police," Marcus Frias, a spokesman for Bowman, said in a statement.... Read More Bowman, who is Black, is now among several other African American Democratic lawmakers who have been arrested in the last year

Joe Manchin walks to meet with Democratic members of the Texas legislature at the Capitol in Washington to discuss voting rights after the group left Austin to try kill a Republican bill that would make voting harder in Texas, July 15, 2021.... Gavin Newsom faces potential ousting in California recall election Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., had a different take." Seemingly every few weeks, Democrats take another run at this.... This week's latest' compromise'is just a compromis

WASHINGTON— After months of wrangling, the U.S. Senate plans to vote this week on an ambitious Democratic bill on voting rights. The bill is already doomed.... Senate rules require 60 votes to move most bills to final passage; this one has only 50 — all Democrats, opposed by all 50 Republicans. The debate will provide plenty of angry rhetoric and finger-pointing.... PoliticsA loss on voting rights will hurt Biden; failure to try would have hurt more President Biden’s voting rights effort aims

Jacquelyn Martin/ AP LaQuita Howard of Washington, with the League of Women Voters, attends a rally for voting rights, Aug.... Kevin Dietsch/ Getty Images A voting rights activist holds a sign that reads" Pass The For The People Act" during a voting rights rally outside the White House, Aug.... Terri Sewell, who authored the bill, told reporters that federal intervention is necessary to combat what Democrats describe as voter suppression across the country." Old battles have become new again,"

" They've got to come down on the floor and defend their opposition to voting rights, the wellspring of our democracy.... Chuck Schumer speaks about voting rights legislation on the floor of the U.S. Senate in Washington, D.C., Jan.... Senate TV Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks about voting rights legislation on the floor of the U.S. Senate in Washington, D.C., Jan....

Tom Williams/ CQ-Roll Call via Getty Images Rep.... Hank Johnson and Cliff Albright, second from left, co-founder of Black Voters Matter, are arrested during a protest to support voting rights outside of Hart Building in Washington, July 22, 2021.... ' While Biden has used his presidential influence to embolden Democrats' push to pass federal voting rights legislation, he has yet to endorse ending the filibuster....

The President is also expected to touch upon voting rights in his speech at the Capitol on Thursday to mark the one-year anniversary of the insurrection, officials say, but intends to address the topic in a far more substantive way next week.... The Senate is expected to take up voting rights in the next few weeks.... Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer set a deadline of January 17--Martin Luther King Day--for the Senate to vote on a rules change if Republicans continue to block voting rights

Stacey Abrams used a Wednesday campaign stop in Atlanta to applaud the push for voting rights in Congress and express support for President Joe Biden Abrams was noticeably absent from Biden's visit last week to Atlanta, where he called for an end to the filibuster to pass voting legislation.... “ But we also have to remember that civil rights and voting rights took a long time, ” she added. Senators opened debate Wednesday on voting legislation that’s almost certain to be defeated.... She also

So while a vote this week is likely to fail, any voting reform that is going to get Republican votes in the future is going to need to take something into account. Advertisement Story continues below advertisement Sen.... Va.), a co-sponsor of this bill, is adamantly opposed to ending the filibuster, though some Democrats hope his position could be softened after Republicans vote down his bill.... Let’s go through the highlights of the legislation. Federal standards for key aspects on voting W

Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., said as she opened the hearing.... Amy Klobuchar conducts a Senate Rules Committee field hearing on voting rights at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta, July 19, 2021.... Right now, that house is on fire." Ben Gray/ AP Sen....