Ms. Mitchell, I want to ask you a question about the Voting Rights Act. You co authored brief in The Shelby county vs. Holder case, did you not? It was on behalf of Alabama in which You argued against the protections of the Voting Rights Act and claimed that the law undermined, quote, state sovereignty. Do you remember that? I do remember that, Senator. You also claim that certain provisions of the Voting Rights act were inappropriate because things in Alabama and the Southern states had sufficiently changed since the original passage of the Voting Rights act in 1965. (03:01–03:08)
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Asserts that arguments were made against the Voting Rights Act, claiming it undermined state sovereignty.
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