US Assistant AG for Civil Rights Division urges Congress to restore Voting Rights Act

[Jurist News]

US Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, Kristen Clarke, on Monday submitted a 20-page statement urging the House Judiciary Committee to implement, enforce, revitalize, and restore the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (“the Act”). The Act was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson to confront the fact that nearly a century after […]

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