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Evan Puschak
9:46 PM on 08/26/2013
... The first thing we have to do is take the monkey wrench that the court threw in it, out of the Voting Rights Act, and then use that monkey wrench to be able to fix it so that it is alive, well, constitutional and impervious to another challenge that will be filed by the usual suspects, Sensenbrenner said Monday at an RNC event held to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr.s March on Washington.
Sensenbrenner is a longtime advocate of the Voting Rights Act. As chair of the House Judiciary Committee when the law was reviewed in 2006, the Wisconsin legislator oversaw extensive deliberations which ultimately affirmed the VRAs continuing necessityand resulted in a 25-year reauthorization. So when the Supreme Court effectively gutted the VRA in June by voiding the requirement for certain states to get federal preclearance before changing their voting laws, Sensenbrenner was displeased.
Voter discrimination still exists, he wrote in a June op-ed for USA Today, and our progress toward equality should not be mistaken for a victory ...
Within the GOP caucus, however, Powell and Sensenbrenner are .. exceptions ...
http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/08/26/republican-sensenbrenner-vows-to-repair-voting-rights-act/
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Recommended.
Suich
(10,642 posts)if I had not seen a video of Sensenbrenner saying this on Rachel Maddow the other day!
Nanjing to Seoul
(2,088 posts)struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)GOP plays down Sensenbrenner remarks
Published August 28, 2013, 12:00 AM
By: Robin Washington, Duluth News Tribune
http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/276311/group/News/
struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)right now against radical GOP extremists who favor voter suppression"
Republicans who want to restore the Voting Rights Act
Posted by AzBlueMeanie
http://www.blogforarizona.com/blog/2013/08/republicans-who-want-to-restore-the-voting-rights-act.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BlogForArizona+%28Blog+For+Arizona%29
lastlib
(23,224 posts)The Twilight Zone!
(cue the music! "Do-do-do-do, do-do-do-do, do-do-do-do..."
Jeff In Milwaukee
(13,992 posts)He's by "representative" and by that I mean I live in his congressional district. Not once since I've lived here have I ever even partially agreed with the guy.
It's like "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" or something.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)I don't have to like his politics in general to think that right now on this particular issue he's a lonely beacon in his party