{"id":4696,"date":"2022-02-04T10:19:36","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T15:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=4696"},"modified":"2022-02-04T10:19:40","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T15:19:40","slug":"is-there-a-path-forward-for-congress-on-elections-reform-a-qa-with-matthew-weil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/is-there-a-path-forward-for-congress-on-elections-reform-a-qa-with-matthew-weil\/","title":{"rendered":"Is there a path forward for Congress on elections reform? A Q&#038;A with Matthew Weil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"284\" data-attachment-id=\"4514\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/georgias-election-law-and-voter-suppression-a-qa-with-ilya-shapiro\/kosar-election-series-banner-final\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Kosar-Election-Series-Banner-Final.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1024,284\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Kosar-Election-Series-Banner-Final\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Kosar-Election-Series-Banner-Final-300x83.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Kosar-Election-Series-Banner-Final.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Kosar-Election-Series-Banner-Final.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Kosar-Election-Series-Banner-Final.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Kosar-Election-Series-Banner-Final-300x83.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Kosar-Election-Series-Banner-Final-768x213.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last month\u2019s party-line vote in the Senate to not enact new elections reform legislation was unsurprising. The legislation had been drawn up by congressional Democrats, and was presented to the GOP as a take-it-or-leave it proposition. Republicans saw little to like in the sprawling\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/house-bill\/5746\/\" target=\"_blank\">700-page bill<\/a>\u00a0that combined both the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and a revised version of H.R. 1, the For the People Act&#8230;.(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/politics-and-public-opinion\/is-there-a-path-forward-for-congress-on-elections-reform-a-qa-with-matthew-weil\/\">Read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month\u2019s party-line vote in the Senate to not enact new elections reform legislation was unsurprising. The legislation had been drawn up by congressional Democrats, and was presented to the GOP as a take-it-or-leave it proposition. Republicans saw little to like in the sprawling\u00a0700-page bill\u00a0that combined both the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[225],"tags":[227],"class_list":["post-4696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-reform","tag-aei-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-1dK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4697,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4696\/revisions\/4697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}