A coalition of election integrity and voting rights leaders made an unsuccessful 11th-hour appeal to the U.S. Senate on March 13 to block the District of Columbia Council from giving non-citizens the right to vote in municipal elections.
Though the House of Representatives had passed a resolution of disapproval with strong bi-partisan support in February, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and the Democrat leadership did not allow the matter to come before the Senate for a vote.
Two resolutions of disapproval, one by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and another by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), were introduced and then referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs….