{"id":15541,"date":"2019-12-06T11:50:17","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T19:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=15541"},"modified":"2019-12-12T14:30:51","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T22:30:51","slug":"restoring-voting-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2019\/12\/06\/restoring-voting-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"Restoring Voting Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good news: <a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2019\/12\/06\/house-passes-voting-rights-adv.html\">House passes Voting Rights Advancement Act to restore Voting Rights Act of 1965<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  On Capitol Hill just now, the House of Representatives has voted to PASS the Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2019 to restore the Voting Rights Act of 1965.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bad news: This will join the mountain of other bills sitting in the Senate that McConnell refuses to do anything about.<span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:2196,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/boingboing.net\\\/2019\\\/12\\\/06\\\/house-passes-voting-rights-adv.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250524131025\\\/https:\\\/\\\/boingboing.net\\\/2019\\\/12\\\/06\\\/house-passes-voting-rights-adv.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-04 03:05:45&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 06:34:44&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 09:09:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-10 12:27:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-06-10 12:27:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good news, bad news situation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}