Senate Republicans are preparing to unanimously block Democrats’ marquee election reform legislation, in a move that sets the stage for a bitter showdown over the future of voting rights across America and the survival of the filibuster rule.
The Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell and a dozen top lieutenants said on Thursday that they would vote down the bill known as S1, predicting that not a single Republican would cross the aisle to join Democrats.
McConnell also said Republicans would not support S1 even if a revised version, with changes amenable to Republicans, was introduced.
“Equally unacceptable, totally inappropriate – all Republicans, I think, will oppose that,” he said.
The opposition from McConnell,
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