Unfortunately, centuries later, in our year 2020, we have yet to demonstrate a republic that is genuinely representative and exemplified by its unequivocal protection of fundamental rights.

Five justices of the U.S. Supreme Court suppressed voting rights and undermined democracy deliberately.

Legislation to restore measures lost when the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act is needed, but it is not enough.

If Congress believes that voting is a fundamental right of every U.S. citizen, it is now the responsibility of Congress to enact franchise for all people.

We need to establish one person-one vote.

We need to abolish the Electoral College.

Black voters and many non-black voters are in a worse place now than we were when the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965.

That is why I, along with my esteemed colleague and friend Congresswoman Robin Kelley, introduced legislation to restore the ability of these local leaders to pass common sense laws and regulations.

H.R. 3435, the Local Public Health and Safety Protection Act, would allow the Department of Justice to provide grants to States that reverse their ill-advised firearm preemption laws and allow local government to take reasonable measures…

Unfortunately, in the 1980s, the gun lobby started approaching Governors, State legislators, and even some of my colleagues in Congress to make sure that these dedicated local leaders and first responders would not be able to do what they…

So I look at it, the world that I leave behind for my new baby granddaughter, will look dramatically different if we do nothing today.

Do not give up on America because what America is all about is that, if we stand up and fight, if we stand up for what we believe in, we will change things.

to discuss how to address the defects of this technology.

Congress must now respond. It is imperative that we restore the Voting Rights Act preclearance requirement.

Voting rights are so important, and we can't let those people's deaths, those people's injuries, those people's efforts go for naught.

The Supreme Court was wrong, in my opinion, to undermine the Voting Rights Act.

I grew up believing that it was part of my responsibility as a minister not just to stand in the pulpit and preach on Sunday mornings, but also to be active in the community and in the nation and the world in an active way to challenge any…

Justice delayed is justice denied.

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

It continues to be a shame and a disgrace.

I want the record to be crystal clear about the true cost of the tax law.

This law did not make the Tax Code any simpler. It did not balance the budget. It does not ease the burden on working families.

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

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

We must understand how we arrived at this point in history so we can discern our best path forward.