It rightly prevented potentially discriminatory voting practices from taking effect before they could harm minority voters.
History repeats itself often, and, unfortunately, in the Deep South, from where I hailed, that has gone on pre-Civil War...
so we at least have a shot at winning.
Our democracy cannot continue half-slave and half-free.
they not only hurt Black people, Brown people, and indigenous people, but they also hurt poor White people.
It is time that we, as the people's House, rise to this threat to our democracy and pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Ad...
This legislation in Texas would strip the ability of Harris County to do that.
We can't just fold up our hands and give it to the State legislators because, if we did that, we know we would be back i...
This is why Congress had repeatedly reauthorized the pre-clearance provision on an overwhelmingly bipartisan basis.
This mechanism ensures that the new voting rules and practices in jurisdictions with a history of discrimination were fa...
The Voting Rights Act with an effective preclearance provision went a long way towards righting that wrong.