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On the recordApril 21, 2021
Having been freed from the restrictions of section 5, those same jurisdictions that had historically denied the right to vote to Black Americans immediately sprang into action into resuming their sordid history of passing laws to suppress the right to vote.
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Hank Johnson
Democratic · Georgia

Editor's note · Context

Critique of laws suppressing voting rights post-Supreme Court decision.

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