Democrats’ massive rewrite of America’s election laws dies in GOP filibuster

Democrats’ sweeping attempt to overhaul the nation’s election system fell to a whimpering defeat Tuesday, dealing President Biden his first major legislative loss.

While the immediate cause of death was a Republican-led filibuster, the legislation, which sprawled across more than 800 pages of text and would have overridden state election laws across the country, collapsed under the weight of its own liberal tilt.

‘For the People Act,’ Democrats’ election overhaul bill, dies in GOP filibuster