A Democrat Blames Republicans for Her Loss, it's about keeping Black People down. If you can believe that Shit.
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2019 Jun 26, 8:18am 12,551 views 0 comments
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House Democrats held a press conference on Tuesday at the Capitol to support the Voting Rights Advancement Act, but almost every speaker mentioned the 2018 gubernatorial race in Georgia and blamed Republicans and, in particular, Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, who defeated Democrat Stacey Abrams, for voter suppression.
Rep. Terri Sewell (D-AL) introduced the bill in the House along with Sen. Patrick Leahy’s (D-VT) companion bill in the Senate in February. The legislation would restore the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to put back into the law the inclusion of pre-clearance rules that gave the Department of Justice jurisdiction over state and local governments’ ability to change voting laws.
The U.S. Supreme Court removed that portion of the VRA in 2013 in the Shelby vs. Holder decision.
“Stacey Abrams was the victim of much of what Georgia did to restrict the vote and it was done intentionally to limit the African American vote and not elect a Democrat and particularly an African America woman,” Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) said at the press conference without naming Kemp by name.