MANCHIN likes mandated early voting, support for Native American voting rights, improved election security, and better disclosure of campaign financing (Disclose Act and Honest Ads Act). Not mentioned: restore VRA preclearance (in HR4), felon reenfranchisement, public financing
ALSO not mentioned in MANCHIN statement: any idea he'd blow up the filibuster for any part of H.R. 1.

Instead he calls for bipartisan cooperation on election reform, which is NOT GOING TO HAPPEN if it requires at least 10 Republican Senators.
ALSO not mentioned in MANCHIN statement: mandated commissions to redistrict to deal with partisan gerrymandering
These are what @brianbeutler has referred to as the "unManchinables"

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16 Mar
Got something coming soon to @washingtonpost @PostOutlook on H.R. 1 that I think will displease everyone. You're welcome.
My new one @WashingtonPost @PostOutlook: Are
Democrats going to blow it again on voting rights? It sure looks like they could by selling H.R. 1 as the only way to combat new Republican voter suppression. washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/0…
Democrats are not going to blow up the filibuster for a bill that won't even get 50 votes. We need a narrower bill that would provide reason enough to blow up the filibuster for voting reform.
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22 Feb
#ELB: Breaking and Analysis: Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Cases Over Conduct of Election in Pennsylvania, With Justices Alito, Gorsuch and Thomas Dissenting electionlawblog.org/?p=120941 #SCOTUS
You can find Justice Thomas’s opinion, dissenting from denial of cert. in two-Pennsylvania election cases, and Justice Alito’s separate dissent joined by Justice Gorsuch in the same cases, at this link beginning at page 25 of the pdf. supremecourt.gov/orders/courtor…
The Court without noted dissent denied cert. in another PA case, the Kelly case. It takes four votes to agree to hear the case, and 5 to rule on the merits. There is no indication that Justice Barrett recused herself in consideration of the merits of these cases.
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11 Feb
Pressure builds on Facebook Oversight Board politi.co/3rHBi8T Scoop via @ZachMontellaro about our new letter supporting Facebook's decision to deplatform Trump.
Here's a link to our full letter on Facebook deplatforming Trump: politico.com/f/?id=00000177…
@davidakaye @julia_azari @JNelsonLDF @alexstamos @jacklerner @cailinmeister @NormOrnstein @Bertrall_Ross Jim Weatherall
Our letter about Facebook deplatforming Trump got more coverage @Politico here, noting 9,000 comments have been submitted so far on the question: politico.com/news/2021/02/1…
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19 Jan
Me @CNN Oct. 19: "What will the United States and the world wake up to on November 4, 2020, the day after Election Day? And could the US endure a close election in which Joe Biden is declared the winner but President Donald J. Trump refuses to concede?"
cnn.com/2020/10/19/opi…
"If the race is close, Trump and his campaign could file lawsuits and use evidence of election administrator incompetence to convince key segments of the American right that Democrats stole the election through deliberate fraud. ..."
"Trump has already sowed distrust in the results by saying without evidence that the only way he loses is if the election is 'rigged.' ..."
Read 5 tweets
12 Dec 20
The Supreme Court dismissed Texas’s bill of complaint in the latest high-profile case pushed by Trump allies in an attempt to overturn the results of the election. The Court did not issue an accompanying opinion.
As expected, Justices Alito and Thomas, who had previously stated that the Court does not have discretion to turn down the cases, would have granted the motion to file the complaint but not granted other relief and expressing no view on the merits of the case.
Read 16 tweets
4 Dec 20
When I was on @NewsHour on November 5, I said that Trump had no grand legal strategy to overturn the results of the election. Nothing has changed in a month, other than a streak of losing, poorly conceived and worse executed cases.
pbs.org/newshour/show/…
If anything, the lawsuits in the last weeks have gotten worse
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