Eleanor Holmes Norton: “The reauthorized Voting Rights Act was passed in a Republican House, a Republican Senate, and signed by a Republican…”

“The reauthorized Voting Rights Act was passed in a Republican House, a Republican Senate, and signed by a Republican President. Then the House and Senate Republican and Democratic leadership led Members of Congress to the front steps of the Congress to express their collective pride in the passage of the Voting Rights Act. Yesterday, the Court did not nullify section 4 of the act. It invalidated it, as applied, and advised Congress to update the formula. The leadership, who so proudly reauthorized the act on the front steps of the Capitol, remains in place today. If the pride they expressed then in the right of all Americans to vote remains, they will now resume their place of leadership to ensure that the entire Voting Rights Act remains proudly the law of the land. ____________________”