President Joe Biden called a wave of new voting restrictions in Republican-led states the “most significant threat to our democracy since the Civil War.”But Biden didn’t directly address what many Democrats see as the only solution: Eliminating the filibuster, as major legislation to counter new state laws can’t overcome a 60-vote threshold in the Senate.The president, in flashes of passion, cast the Republican efforts as a “21st Century Jim Crow” that was “real and unrelenting.”“We’re going to challenge it vigorously,” Biden said.CNN and MSNBC carried the full speech.
Fox News stuck with regular programming at 3 PM ET, The Story with Martha MacCallum.The latest effort to pass a series of voting restrictions is taking place in Texas, where
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