'These partisan attempts at voter nullification are unlike anything we've seen in modern times,' Obama writes in USA Today op-ed.
"These partisan attempts at voter nullification are unlike anything we've seen in modern times ... when one of our two major parties seems intent on chipping away at the foundation of our own democracy."in the Constitution, and was used most notably to block civil rights legislation, according to Obama.
"[W]e can't allow it to be used to block efforts to protect our democracy," he said, adding that he fully supports Biden's call to modify Senate rules as needed. "Our democracy isn’t a given ... We, as citizens, have to nurture and tend it," he said. "And in that task, we have to vigilantly preserve and protect our most basic tool of self-government, which is the right to vote."The Senate is expected to vote on rule changes to the filibuster by Jan. 17.
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