A solution to the assault on voting: @TheDemocrats @HouseDemocrats @SenateDems pass a bill to make Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act apply to every state in the country. This would largely bring in blue states.

Here's why: SCOTUS threw out Section 5 because it only applied../1
...to states with a history of voting discrimination, arguing that things have changed (Of course, they haven't. As soon as section 5 was thrown out, all of those states and counties rushed to pass laws restricting voting.) The issue in the Shelby case was that restricting.../2
...preclearance requirements only to states with a history of racist voting restrictions was unfair because it was based on 60 year old assessments of those states. Under the Shelby decision, there is no way to reimpose preclearance of voting laws (which would require states.../3
...to prove there was no disparate impact of new state voting rules) unless every state is covered. So...do it. Bring in every state. Require every state to get federal pre-clearance for voting changes. Why not? Almost all of the ones brought in would be blue. Imagine.../4
...the GOP attacking the idea of restoring teeth to the VRA by requiring blue states to get federal approval of voting changes. They would *literally* be attacking the Voting Rights Act and demanding that blue states be treated better than red states. The worst attacks on.../5
...voting since passage of VRA have been since 2010, when the court ruled on Shelby, saying that the red states/counties covered by it were no longer racist - an assertion of fact disproven by actions since then.
I have no doubt that this would even win over @Sen_JoeManchin.../6
...because it is doing nothing but bringing back the Voting Rights Act an applying it equally to every state.

Does it do everything? No. But does it make actions like Texas, Florida etc impossible to do? Yup. And there is nothing more revealing than watching the GOP try to.../7
..justify attacking VRA because it was going to be applied to blue states.

So, @TeamPelosi @SenSchumer @Sen_JoeManchin etc: Bring back Section 5 of VRA by applying it to the entire country. Overrule Shelby case by changing the element of the law at foundation of that decision.

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