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How we overcome these restrictions. Tom has pointed out, representative waters pointed out, the fact that when these restrictions are in place they are significant for people. And the fact that we have communities that fight hard to overcome those restrictions does not make them right, or correct. And so, i think we have to continue as representative waters has stated and tom has stated and everyone here needs to understand, to fight against these restrictions, understand exactly what they are, which are efforts to take away the right to vote, restrict the right to vote from people, minorities, young people, you know, the idea that many of these i. D. , voter i. D. Laws do not allow you to use your college i. D. , in texas, right, you can use gun, firearm owners card but can not use the college i. D. As your voter i. D. And, how can that possibly be if your objective is to do anything other than limit young peoples right to vote . And how, how can that be right in the country we live i ....
Two names, the men who will be at the helm of Trumps White House as his closest advisers. Republican National Committee chair Reince Priebus whose title would be white house chief of staff. And Steven Bannon who will be trumps strategist. This was followed by allies rushing to defend him as a, quote, force for good, a navy veteran and a person who has, quote, embraced adversity. Instead of the position for which he is more commonly known, the man who headed an Online Platform that bannon himself proclaimed was the platform for the altright. As the New York Times reported this week, its that steve bannon who critics feared would be a voice of racism ....
The mike brown shooting happened and the obama justice department cleared that police officer, i remember feeling that, okay, this is a verdict, even though it was i didn t like it, it s a verdict that i can have some credibility with because i believe that that justice department took seriously the concerns of people like me. i do not and will not have that same sort of confidence in a similar situation under mr. sessions. and judith, your organization, the advancement project, has done a lot of fighting on the issue of voting rights and access to the ballot. arie berman said there was widespread voter suppression that went unanswered and we haven t dealt with or quantified the magnitude of its influence, but if you look at the new republican back in 2002 and it talked about one of other of jeff sessions historical precedence and that is his prosecution of civil rights workers who were trying to register voters in alabama. ....