But they cannot be denied access to education. The courts have decided that, as I understand it.
Those decrees still remain in effect in a number of districts.
I think we are fortunate on the Judiciary Committee to also have, in addition to our other colleagues, Senator Feinstein...
I just would like your verbal commitment here to continue to do what you have always done, and that is, put the safety a...
As I said, I supported the reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act with Section 5 in it. When the Supreme Court said it...
As the law is to be applied, yes.
the Voting Rights Act was absolutely essential to reverse the problem that we had in the South of systemic voter suppres...
I would be surprised if it is not public, and it should be available to the public.
No one has been more committed or engaged than Senator Jeff Sessions in protecting and enhancing the prospects of Black ...
you cannot create laws designed to inhibit the right of any class of citizens to vote
Well, it can fail to enforce it by setting prosecutorial policies with regard to declining to prosecute whole chunks of ...
The Solicitor General... has a duty, the Department of Justice does, to defend the laws passed by this body, by Congress...
I would be pleased to work with you on that. And I do not have firm and fast opinions on the subject.
This Congress has regularly underreached and invited executive overreach.
It does represent unjustifiable failures that we are seeing too often in our system today.
Senator Sessions' commitment to civil rights transcends simple resolutions in support of civil rights.
We made real reform in IDEA. I led that effort. We ended up having the vote of Hillary Clinton and Dick Durbin.
We need to guard against the kind of public statements that have troubled me in recent months and years.
