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Summer Lee: “Shouldn't we be brave enough to acknowledge that if any state law reflects institutional racism, that preclearance of…”

On the recordJuly 17, 2013
Shouldn't we be brave enough to acknowledge that if any state law reflects institutional racism, that preclearance of laws affecting the right to vote in those states should be required?
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Summer Lee
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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Calls for preclearance of voting laws reflecting institutional racism.

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