1. Real talk: only 9 states were covered in toto by the preclearance formula struck down in 2013, 10 if you count NC. Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri, West Virginia, & Kentucky weren't covered, nor most of Florida. Northern states like OH & WI weren't covered.https://twitter.com/vanitaguptaCR/status/1284466593058127872 …
On the theory that not one of the 50 states can be trusted, so let's put them under the supervision of...a government elected by all of them?
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Yes. If they can be trusted, they have nothing to fear. The right that is important to protect here in a multi-racial democracy is the right of everyone to vote! Not the state’s right to possibly circumscribe that. Can’t you see that?
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Of all the laws Congress has passed, this one holds great weight for what this country is and might be. So why on earth gut this law—born of a struggle to the *death* for too many—designed to protect the right to *vote* of black Americans passed a *century* after Appomattox?
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