Today, September 11, 2021, marks 3,000 days since June 25, 2013, the day when the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by removing preclearance in the landmark case Shelby County v Holder.
The late Ruth Bader Ginsburg famously wrote in her dissent of that decision, “[T]hrowing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet.”
Congress has had 3,000 days now to fix this and restore voting rights protections to millions of Americans, but it has yet to do anything. They don’t even seem to have any sense of urgency about doing it. The infrastructure of our democracy is crumbling and in need of repair!
3,000 days is 3,000 days too many. Congress must act now, and it must act quickly! We demand the full For The People Act, which John Lewis wrote w/ his dying breath, full restoration of the VRA, & we must have the infrastructure of our daily lives protected by $15/hr living wage.
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