Republicans call Democratic John Lewis voting rights bill a ‘partisan power grab’

As Democrats take a second shot at passing voting rights legislation after their sweeping election overhaul legislation was blocked in the Senate, Republicans are signaling that they will not support their smaller-scale but still significant plan B.

The House will vote this week on H.R. 4, the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, named after the late Georgia representative and civil rights icon. Unlike the H.R. 1/S. 1, the For the People Act, which would have imposed a swath of restrictions on how states administer elections, the bill aims to counter a conservative Supreme Court by bolstering the 1965 Voting Rights Act.