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Eric Holder: “We need to have the Freedom to Vote Act. We need the John Lewis bill. We need to reconstitute the Voting Rights Act.”

On the recordSeptember 16, 2021
We need to have the Freedom to Vote Act. We need the John Lewis bill. We need to reconstitute the Voting Rights Act.
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Eric Holder
Democratic · District of Columbia
Source
msnbc.com

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Eric Holder advocates for the passage of key voting rights legislation.

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