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Panich52

(5,829 posts)
Sat May 9, 2015, 08:21 AM May 2015

Sen. Chuck Grassley: no need to restore the Voting Rights Act (VRA)

Brennan Center

U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Judiciary Committee, last week http://www.brennancenter.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=81502&qid=4861768 said there was no need to restore the Voting Rights Act (VRA) — which the Supreme Court gutted in 2013 — because “more minorities are already voting.” “To insinuate that the VRA was designed to drive up vote totals in minority communities shows real disregard for the voting discrimination that inspired the nation to adopt the law and persists today in the wake of the [Supreme Court] decision,” Wade Henderson, president of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, told the International Business Times. http://www.brennancenter.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=81503&qid=4861768

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Sen. Chuck Grassley: no need to restore the Voting Rights Act (VRA) (Original Post) Panich52 May 2015 OP
I really believe Old Chuck is showing signs of Alzheimer's rurallib May 2015 #1
Nah, he's just the same nincompoop/tool he always was. Kurovski Jul 2015 #4
Should be restored but now apply to all 50 states & outlaw puke games on point May 2015 #2
What a shock: Politician supports a law that personally benefits him leftofkant May 2015 #3

leftofkant

(14 posts)
3. What a shock: Politician supports a law that personally benefits him
Wed May 20, 2015, 04:44 PM
May 2015

Now how to upend a system that provides a system where this works for him...

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