“The year-long Democratic push for federal voting rights legislation died in the Senate on Wednesday night, after Republicans blocked an elections bill for the fifth time in six months and Democrats failed to unite their caucus behind a plan to rewrite the Senate’s rules and pass it anyway.”

Senators Manchin (D-WV) and Sinema (D-AZ) both supported the Voting Rights legislation but not enough to shift the Senate rules to remove the filibuster and lower the vote threshold to 50.