{"id":478054,"date":"2022-01-20T13:33:27","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T13:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?guid=e6557bbaf5962fc8966bbde5f2c5e2bc"},"modified":"2022-01-20T13:33:27","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T13:33:27","slug":"setback-for-democracy-manchin-sinema-join-senate-republicans-to-block-voting-rights-legislation-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/01\/20\/setback-for-democracy-manchin-sinema-join-senate-republicans-to-block-voting-rights-legislation-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Setback for Democracy: Manchin &amp; Sinema Join Senate Republicans to Block Voting Rights Legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2022\/1\/20\/president_joe_bidens_first_year\"><img style=\"float:right; padding-left:5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/images\/story\/16\/61216\/w320\/SEG2-sinema-manchin.jpg\" alt=\"Seg2 sinema manchin\" \/><\/a><p>As President Biden marked one year in office this week, conservative Democratic Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema joined with Republican senators to block a proposed change to filibuster rules that would have allowed two voting rights bills to move forward, foreclosing the chance to stop hundreds of anti-voting laws passed after the 2020 election. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders blasted his colleagues for opposing the rules change, and Georgia&#8217;s Raphael Warnock likened the fight for voting rights to the civil rights movement. We air excerpts from their speeches.<\/p>\n      \n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\"><br>\r\nThis content originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2022\/1\/20\/president_joe_bidens_first_year\" >Democracy Now!<\/a> and was authored by Democracy Now!.  <br><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2022\/01\/20\/setback-for-democracy-manchin-sinema-join-senate-republicans-to-block-voting-rights-legislation\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As President Biden marked one year in office this week, conservative Democratic Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema joined with Republican senators to block a proposed change to filibuster rules that would have allowed two voting rights bills to move forward, foreclosing the chance to stop hundreds of anti-voting laws passed after the 2020 election. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders blasted his colleagues for opposing the rules change, and Georgia&#8217;s Raphael Warnock likened the fight for voting rights to the civil rights movement. We air excerpts from their speeches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1293,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336,27150],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478054"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1293"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":478055,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478054\/revisions\/478055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}