The key is that we need to have the tools of federal law to stop this kind of siege across America and it will occur. If they can't get you at the ballot box, if they can silence your voice at the ballot box, then they will attempt to silence you by writing you out that is not a democratic republic. It is not democracy. And I don't think we can allow that to stand, not as a state, but as a nation.
Summer Lee: “The key is that we need to have the tools of federal law to stop this kind of siege across America and it will occur. If…”
On the recordOctober 15, 2021
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Sheila Jackson Lee emphasizes the need for federal laws to protect voting rights and democracy in the face of voter suppression efforts.
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