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Steve Cohen: “If they were under the preclearance requirement, the courts could have stopped them from doing it before they did.”

On the recordSeptember 9, 2019
If they were under the preclearance requirement, the courts could have stopped them from doing it before they did.
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Steve Cohen
Democratic · Tennessee

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the need for preclearance to prevent discriminatory voting laws.

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