MSNBC American Voices With Alicia Menendez August 28, 2021 22:04:00
And that's not hyperbolic. that's because the voting rights act was signed on august 6th, 1965 by president johnson, and has been gutted by the gop supreme court in 2013, and recently a case gutting section two. we are literally before the civil rights movement in terms of protecting voters of color, specifically black voters from this. so the john lewis voting rights act takes a step in the right direction. it would put the pre-clearance provision back in the voting rights action, which is the heart and soul of the voting rights act. it means before states that have covered jurisdictions can ...
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