““There’s no threat to the voting rights law. It’s against the law to discriminate in voting on the basis of race already,” the Kentucky Republican said Tuesday at a weekly press conference when asked about the legislation.”
Sure. The VRA is still there. But no pre-clearance.
Sure. The VRA is still there. But no pre-clearance.
https://twitter.com/aterkel/status/1402369983376658438
That means that states and localities can’t be prevented from enacting voting restrictions and the Justice Department has to use its very limited resources to sue, one case at a time. Sure the VRA still exists. But it’s two orders of magnitude harder to enforce.
And Republican administrations just won’t bring VRA cases.
I guess Joe Manchin could have tried to make a deal on this before giving up the only leverage that he or Democrats had but oh well.
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