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Cory Booker: “They [the Supreme Court] have gutted the Voting Rights Act…”

Featuring: Cory Booker, Democratic | U.S. Senate, New Jersey

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Senator Cory Booker on The Last Word Full Interview about the Iran War and Voting Rights Act

Published | Video Starts at 00:58

And now here we have six unelected individuals who, after millions of Americans, joined together in a movement to create fairness. Now They [the Supreme Court] have gutted the Voting Rights Act that so many fought for and many died for. and are going to send us back to a world where entire states that have 20, 30, 40%, almost as in Louisiana, a third of their population is African American. (00:58–06:49)

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Asserts that the Supreme Court has significantly weakened the Voting Rights Act.

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