Voters approved a redistricting plan to fight back against the staggering Republican assault on our democracy. A narrow majority on the Virginia Supreme Court tossed it aside. An awful, awful decision, in my view. And now The United States Supreme Court has taken another wrecking ball to the Voting Rights Act. a law that for generations helped protect many communities from having their voices diluted and their power stolen. Well, guess what, Mr. Speaker. We are not going back to the days of Jim Crow. (56:50–56:56)
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Asserts that the U.S. Supreme Court has weakened the Voting Rights Act.
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