Senator Ron Wyden calls the wave of new Jim Crow laws, passed after Shelby County v. Holder, “John Roberts laws.“
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“Disenfranchisement, particularly of Black voters, has already become routine again since the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in 2013.
“Because racist lawmakers passed laws after Reconstruction to disenfranchise Black Americans that they called Jim Crow laws, voting restrictions targeting Black Americans these days ought to be called ‘John Roberts laws.’
“And now, having seen voters help both elect Biden and send two Democrats to the Senate, Georgia Republicans are gearing up to pass a whole new raft of them.
“They're aiming to put unjustifiable new limits on absentee voting, and, if some Georgia Republicans have their way, the only polling place in metro Atlanta might well be hidden somewhere in the rafters of Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Other red states will surely follow Georgia's lead.
“In the wake of this attack, Democrats must use our majorities in Congress to pass reforms that will defend our democracy from the forces that supported, incited and fueled the riots — which means making it easier for every American to vote.”
Congress should also make DC a state. The Rube Goldberg mechanism for calling out the DC National Guard didn’t work in the face of an attempted coup. The new governor of the state of DC should have the same right to call out the guard as every other governor.
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