Democratic senator obstructs Biden and his party's ambitions to pass voting rights legislation

Democratic Senator Joe Machin has confirmed that he will not vote to approve the Democrats' voting rights bill, and that he will not agree to end the legislative "disruption" mechanism, a written promise that puts much of President Joe Biden's agenda in jeopardy, according to the New York Times.

The bill, backed by all other Senate Democrats and portrayed by the party as an urgent attempt to preserve American democracy, would repeal dozens of laws passed by Republican state legislatures to limit early voting and by mail and empower partisan voting monitors. This measure, known as a "law for the people," would also restore many of the moral checks on the presidency.

 Senator Manchin wrote an article in the Charleston Gazette Mail, published in his state of West Virginia, in which he said that he believed that partisan voting legislation would destroy the already weak ties of American democracy, and therefore he would vote against a law for the people, moreover, he would not vote to weaken or eliminate the The legislative blocking mechanism used in the Senate, which allows preventing a vote on legislation by delaying or withholding a vote by prolonging the debate on the measure.

The 818-page bill would end partisan fraud, tighten restrictions on campaign spending and make it easier to register voters. It would also force major party presidential and vice presidential candidates to release their 10-year personal and business tax returns, and end exempting the president and vice president from conflict-of-interest rules that allowed Trump to keep businesses that benefited from his presidency.

 With Manchin's pledge, the New York Times said, passage of the legislation appears impossible, although some parts of it could be passed in other ways if Democrats were willing to split the bill, a move they opposed.