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 fair to all voters.

The Voting Rights Act with an effective preclearance provision went a long way towards righting that wrong.

We can't win if everybody votes.

Unfortunately, the Supreme Court effectively gutted the VRA's preclearance requirement in 2013...

Memphis, unfortunately, is third in the country in pedestrian deaths, and that needs to stop.

It is important that we have not only the prosecutorial perspective that the judges experience, but also the defense perspective.

Zero Black appeals court judges were appointed by Trump, zero out of about 65.

I believe it is about half of the Members on the other side who have not taken their tests, and that is why we can't go back to our hearings like we would like.

I represented people, poor people, who otherwise had no voice.

Over the past 4 years which direction have we gone in? We have gone the wrong direction.