What backlash to landmark voting law tells us about debate today – Center for Public Integrity
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on November 3, 2023
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Ronald Reagan praised the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as “vital.” Bill Clinton deemed it a “triumph.” George W. Bush said the law “broke the segregationist lock on the ballot box.”
When the U.S. Senate reauthorized the law most recently, in 2006, it passed by a vote of 98 to 0.
And even Chief Justice John Roberts, in a Supreme Court ruling to gut a key enforcement mechanism of the law in . . .
