The discriminatory practices of the 1960s which gave birth to the Voting Rights Act have gotten what I call my three S's: they have gotten extremely sneaky, extremely sophisticated, and extremely smarter.
Durbin warns about the evolving nature of discriminatory voting practices since the Voting Rights Act.
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To leave here without this being a law finalized to protect these young people … is painful, really painful. I don’t want them to feel like I’m abandoning them.
These changes threaten to undermine the work of the FBI and pose a grave risk to the Bureau’s integrity.
Changes of this magnitude with no discernible justification must be scrutinized.
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