/channels/news_feeds/all/term/Voting%20rights/rss en /channels/channels/news/biden-vows-end-filibuster-ahead-voting-rights-bills-will-mark-turning-point-us-history-globe-and-336472 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>January 12, 2022 | Joe Biden isn't the first president to push for expanded voting rights, <a href="//www.mcgill.ca/maxbellschool/our-people/mpp-teaching-faculty/david-shribman">David Shribman</a> comments in his article for <em>The Globe and Mail</em>. "If the working definition of news is a departure from the normal, then Joe Biden's speech Tuesday pressing Congress to preserve and expand voting rights for minorities barely qualifies," Shribman writes. "American presidents have been making that speech for more than a half-century."</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-primary-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img class="no-float" src="/channels/files/channels/styles/wysiwyg_medium/public/channels/image/david_shribman_us_voting_rights_globe_and_mail.jpg?itok=zTrDdQhU" width="160" height="107" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-published-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="custom-multi-date"><div class="multi-date first"><span class="label">Published: </span><span class="day">14 </span><span class="month">January </span><span class="year">2022</span></div></div></div></div></div> Fri, 14 Jan 2022 17:36:26 +0000 webfull 176499 at /channels