.MaddowBlog: Senate Democrats set up a possible path for voting rights legislation.
For many voting-rights advocates, there were at least some hopes that Congress would try to take dramatic action on the issue before members' August break. That did not happen.
And so, in the very last step before the Senate's summer break, the narrow Democratic majority approved the motion to discharge the For the People Act on. Literally every member of the Democratic conference, including Sen. Joe Manchin , voted together on this. "Let there be no mistake about what is going on here," Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said early this morning."We have reached a point in this chamber where Republicans appear to oppose any measure, any measure -- no matter how commonsense -- to protect voting rights and strengthen our democracy.
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