the practical political effect of what they have done is to advantage the Republican Party.
they have advantaged the Republican Party by opening up the floodgates to these special interest dollars.
voting discrimination continues to exist; no one doubts that.
Democrats and Republicans must work together now to renew and to strengthen the Voting Rights Act.
This Congress was given the sacred obligation under the 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution to protect against voting discriminatio...
I worked with Congressman Sensenbrenner... to forge a bipartisan compromise to update and modernize the law.
There are, sadly, too many instances where voters face intentional discrimination at the ballot box.
There is no right more fundamental to our existence as American citizens than the right to vote.
race still matters in America, and it certainly matters in Georgia.
It would be a travesty if the Voting Rights Act were to become partisan for the very first time in this Nation's history.
I could not disagree more with Justice Scalia, and I would suggest that he live in the real world.