Filibuster carve-out - Domestic terrorism unit - Europe’s Covid assessment

President Biden has said it before, but this time he said it with emphasis [in a speech on Tuesday]: He wants Senate Democrats to erode the filibuster so they can pass two voting rights bills. What Biden left unsaid is that he is stuck on how to get the Senate to make these changes.
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Biden wants Democrats to “carve out” an exception for voting rights. Senators can make a carve-out for anything they want, so long as they have 51 votes to do it. (Both Democrats and Republicans have ended the filibuster on presidential nominees, all the way up to the Supreme Court.) Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) is going to hold a vote on ending the filibuster for voting-rights issues this week.
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Sens. Joe Manchin III (W.Va.) and Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.), among other Democratic senators, are hesitant to make any changes to what kinds of legislation can be blocked. They’ve both argued that it’s a slippery slope that could backfire on Democrats by giving Republicans an opening to push voting restriction legislation as soon as they get back in power.