{"id":37280,"date":"2021-07-02T18:32:22","date_gmt":"2021-07-03T01:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37280"},"modified":"2021-07-05T18:33:22","modified_gmt":"2021-07-06T01:33:22","slug":"supreme-court-decision-amps-up-voting-rights-battle-in-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37280","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court decision amps up voting rights battle in Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">A controversial 6-3 decision by the Supreme Court on Thursday upholding Republican-backed voting restrictions in Arizona has upped the ante for this year\u2019s voting rights debate in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>It also means that calls to reform the Senate\u2019s rules will only continue to grow, despite recent declarations from Sens.\u00a0Joe Manchin\u00a0(D-W.Va.) and\u00a0Kyrsten Sinema\u00a0(D-Ariz.) that they will not support eliminating or curtailing the filibuster.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A controversial 6-3 decision by the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37281,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37280\/revisions\/37281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}