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Chris Coons: “The Supreme Court's decision in the Shelby case was very much focused on the idea that you could not mark certain States…”

On the recordJune 24, 2014
The Supreme Court's decision in the Shelby case was very much focused on the idea that you could not mark certain States based on data that the Court thought was too old.
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Chris Coons
Democratic · Delaware

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Senator Coons discusses the implications of the Shelby County decision on state data usage.

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