James Lewis actually said...

I think it is good and necessary that we do it, that we put the cards on the table face up.

As John Lewis eloquently stated, this decision plunged a dagger into the heart of the civil rights movement.

The loss of Section 5 preclearance cuts deep into the Federal protection of the right to vote.

Before the Voting Rights Act, the state of voting rights in the Deep South was, I have described, abysmal.