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Jeff Sessions: “There was a clear finding that there were discriminatory activities in the South, that a number of States were…”

On the recordJanuary 9, 2017
There was a clear finding that there were discriminatory activities in the South, that a number of States were systematically denying individuals the right to vote.
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Jeff Sessions
Republican · Alabama

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Sessions discusses historical discrimination in voting practices in Southern states.

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