• Latest
  • Trending
  • All
  • News
  • Business
  • Lifestyle
Biden Taps Harris To Lead Admin’s ‘Voting Rights’ Push

Biden Taps Harris To Lead Admin’s ‘Voting Rights’ Push

June 5, 2021
HALEY KENNINGTON: Why We Need Hawley’s Stock Trade Ban

HALEY KENNINGTON: Why We Need Hawley’s Stock Trade Ban

August 13, 2025
BRAD WEISENSTEIN: Pritzker Says Gerrymander Can Be Gerry-More-Mandered If He Works At It

BRAD WEISENSTEIN: Pritzker Says Gerrymander Can Be Gerry-More-Mandered If He Works At It

August 13, 2025
Texas House Democrats Relent And Head Home

Texas House Democrats Relent And Head Home

August 12, 2025
Cali Dems Brag About LA Fire Rapid Rebuild While Most Victims Wait For Permits

Cali Dems Brag About LA Fire Rapid Rebuild While Most Victims Wait For Permits

August 12, 2025
Popular DC Influencer Asks Followers To Defend Honor Of City — It Backfired Badly

Popular DC Influencer Asks Followers To Defend Honor Of City — It Backfired Badly

August 12, 2025
Parents Don’t Have ‘Deeply Rooted’ Right To Trans Their Kids, Appeals Courts Find

Parents Don’t Have ‘Deeply Rooted’ Right To Trans Their Kids, Appeals Courts Find

August 12, 2025
Trump Admin Puts Multi-Million Dollar Bounty On Vicious Haitian Gangster Nicknamed ‘Barbecue’

Trump Admin Puts Multi-Million Dollar Bounty On Vicious Haitian Gangster Nicknamed ‘Barbecue’

August 12, 2025
Watch As Texas Dems Throw Tantrum, Storm Out Before Losing Redistricting Vote

Watch As Texas Dems Throw Tantrum, Storm Out Before Losing Redistricting Vote

August 12, 2025
ARUSHI SHARMA FRANK: What Should Be In The Strategic Blueprint For A 21st Century Grid?

ARUSHI SHARMA FRANK: What Should Be In The Strategic Blueprint For A 21st Century Grid?

August 12, 2025
‘It’s Never Enough!’: Jeanine Pirro Unleashes On Reporter Who Downplays DC Crime

‘It’s Never Enough!’: Jeanine Pirro Unleashes On Reporter Who Downplays DC Crime

August 12, 2025
Greg Abbott Vows To Keep Calling Redistricting Sessions Until ‘Derelict’ Dems Come Back To Work

Greg Abbott Vows To Keep Calling Redistricting Sessions Until ‘Derelict’ Dems Come Back To Work

August 12, 2025
‘Bring it On, Gavin!’: Karoline Leavitt Says Trump Admin Relishes Legal Fight With Newsom

‘Bring it On, Gavin!’: Karoline Leavitt Says Trump Admin Relishes Legal Fight With Newsom

August 12, 2025
  • Donald Trump
  • Tariffs
  • Congress
  • Faith
  • Immigration
Wednesday, August 13, 2025
  • Login
IJR
  • Politics
  • US News
  • Commentary
  • World News
  • Faith
  • Latest Polls
No Result
View All Result
IJR
No Result
View All Result
Home News

Biden Taps Harris To Lead Admin’s ‘Voting Rights’ Push

by Western Journal
June 5, 2021 at 7:30 am
in News
247 5
0
Biden Taps Harris To Lead Admin’s ‘Voting Rights’ Push

(Gage Skidmore/Flickr)

491
SHARES
1.4k
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

President Joe Biden has tasked Vice President Kamala Harris with dealing with what the Biden-Harris administration calls a “push for voting rights legislation.”

“Every American has a right to have their voice heard at the ballot box, and no American should be kept from voting early, voting by mail, or voting at all,” Harris said in a Tuesday news release. “Our democracy is strongest when everyone participates, and it is weaker when people are left out.”

In the release, Harris said that Biden asked her to help lead the Biden-Harris administration’s “effort to protect the fundamental right to vote for all Americans.”

In the upcoming weeks, Harris said, she would work along with “voting rights organizations, community organizations, and the private sector to help strengthen and uplift efforts on voting rights nationwide.”

She also seeks to work with Congress to pass two bills she claims will protect the right to vote. The bills she names are ‘The For the People Act,” which she claims would “provide all Americans with fair and accessible voting options, ” and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, which, according to Harris, “would prevent discriminatory changes to voting laws and procedures.”

Harris stated that, since the November election, over 380 bills were introduced nationwide to allegedly make voting difficult for Americans.

Today, Texas legislators advanced a bill attacking the right to vote. It’s yet another assault on our democracy. Congress needs to pass the For the People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.

We need to make it easier for eligible voters to vote. Not harder.

— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) May 30, 2021

The bills, Harris stated, seek “to restrict the options that make voting more convenient and accessible, including early voting and vote by mail.”

Harris said the Biden-Harris administration will “not stand by” in the face of such legislation, according to the news release.

The 380 bills she refers to include legislation Republican lawmakers introduced to reduce election fraud. Democrats claim such legislation disenfranchises Americans by making it hard for them to vote.

Republicans, however, argue that such regulations ensure the integrity of the electoral system, protecting it from any manipulation.

In a Tuesday speech, Biden called upon the Senate to pass the For The People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, saying he’d “fight like heck” to get the legislation passed, Politico reported.

However, Harris and the Democrats face hurdles in their quest to get both Acts passed by the Senate, according to the outlet. Not all Senate Democrats support the For The People Act, notably Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, according to Politico.

Even if Machin were to support the bill, Democrats would not be able to gather the 60 votes needed to overcome a Republican filibuster, Politico reported.

The Senate is currently tied between 50 Republican senators and 50 senators who are either Democrats or vote with Democrats. As vice president, Harris would cast a deciding vote.

Biden acknowledged the barriers to passing the legislation in his speech.

“I hear all of the folks on TV saying, ‘Why doesn’t Biden get this done?’ Well, because Biden only has the majority of effectively four votes in the House and a tie in the Senate. With two members of the Senate who vote more with my Republican friends,” Biden said, according to Politico, taking a shot at Manchin and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona.

Before appointing Harris to deal with “voting rights legislation,” Biden had assigned her to deal with the crisis of illegal immigration on the southern border.

Despite taking on that role in March, Harris has not visited the border herself. Neither has the crisis subsided.

On Tuesday, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, issued a disaster declaration for 34 Texas counties on or near the border, according to the New York Post.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

Tags: Joe BidenKamala HarrisU.S. NewsVoting
Share196Tweet123
Western Journal

Western Journal

Advertisements

Top Stories June 10th
Top Stories June 7th
Top Stories June 6th
Top Stories June 3rd
Top Stories May 30th
Top Stories May 29th
Top Stories May 24th
Top Stories May 23rd
Top Stories May 21st
Top Stories May 17th

Join Over 6M Subscribers

We’re organizing an online community to elevate trusted voices on all sides so that you can be fully informed.





IJR

    Copyright © 2024 IJR

Trusted Voices On All Sides

  • About Us
  • GDPR Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Service
  • Editorial Standards & Corrections Policy
  • Subscribe to IJR

Follow Us

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In
No Result
View All Result
  • Politics
  • US News
  • Commentary
  • World News
  • Faith
  • Latest Polls

    Copyright © 2024 IJR

Top Stories June 10th Top Stories June 7th Top Stories June 6th Top Stories June 3rd Top Stories May 30th Top Stories May 29th Top Stories May 24th Top Stories May 23rd Top Stories May 21st Top Stories May 17th