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On the recordApril 30, 2019
I think that the Chief Justice was correct in the ruling in Shelby, and I think that it is correct that the Voting Rights Act preclearance requirement that that case addressed, being based wrongly on at that time 40-plus-year-old data, 1968 data--in some cases, 1972 data--the Court was right in saying that that was wrong.
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Gerry Connolly
Democratic · Virginia

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Connolly supports the Shelby ruling regarding outdated data in Voting Rights Act applications.

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