Patrick Leahy actually said...

I could not disagree more with Justice Scalia, and I would suggest that he live in the real world.

It would be a travesty if the Voting Rights Act were to become partisan for the very first time in this Nation's history.

There is no right more fundamental to our existence as American citizens than the right to vote.

I worked with Congressman Sensenbrenner... to forge a bipartisan compromise to update and modernize the law.