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Summer Lee: I ask the question why. Why can we not have the protection of the 15th amendment, which instructs the Senate…

On the recordJuly 22, 2021
I ask the question why. Why can we not have the protection of the 15th amendment, which instructs the Senate constitutionally that they have a duty to end all laws that abridge the right to vote on the base of race.
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Summer Lee
Democratic · Pennsylvania
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msnbc.com

Editor's note · Context

Sheila Jackson Lee questions the lack of protection for voting rights under the 15th amendment.

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