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Jeff Sessions: “The Voting Rights Act was absolutely essential to reverse the problem that we had in the South of systemic voter…”

On the recordJanuary 9, 2017
The Voting Rights Act was absolutely essential to reverse the problem that we had in the South of systemic voter suppression
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

Editor's note · Context

Sessions acknowledges the importance of the Voting Rights Act in combating voter suppression.

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