Reminder: In #Husted, the Department of Justice under Jeff Sessions decided to abandon its longstanding position that the National Voter Registration Act and the Help America Vote Act prohibit techniques like Ohio’s voter purge. #SCOTUS
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In September, we joined
@NAACP_LDF in filing an amicus brief opposing Ohio’s process of purging citizens from the state’s voter registration rolls – a process that#SCOTUS just upheld. You can read our#Husted brief here: http://bit.ly/2JEThY8Show this thread -
Justice Sotomayor's
#Husted dissent: The ruling "ignores the history of voter suppression against which the NVRA was enacted and upholds a program that appears to further the very disenfranchisement of minority and low-income voters that Congress set out to eradicate."#SCOTUSpic.twitter.com/3FMEkpcNmW
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Then we need to change the federal law.
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