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UPDATE, 7:26 PM PT: Democrats’ efforts to pass voting rights legislation stalled again in the Senate, as they fell short in securing a filibuster rules change that would have allowed them to clear the bills with a simple majority. The failure of the legislation was expected, after Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) and Sen. Jo…

UPDATE, 1:48 PM PT: Joe Biden characterized pending voting rights legislation in historic terms, as he called for changing the filibuster rules of the Senate to pass them. That includes getting rid of the 60-vote threshold specifically for the purposes of passing two voting bills. The legislation would, among other…

The Senate failed to advance a major new voting bill on Wednesday, legislation that advocates have sought as a way to protect the right to vote amid new restrictions being put in place in GOP-led states. The vote was 49-51 to move forward with debate over the bill. All Republicans voted against it. Sixty votes were…

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) seemingly dashed any hopes of Democrats abolishing the filibuster anytime soon when he wrote last week that the legislative maneuver was a "critical tool" to protecting "our democratic form of government." That's a far different view than that of former President Barack Obama, who called it a…