Posted on Sep 19, 2023
Restoring the Voting Rights Act is still on this Alabama Democrat's agenda
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In the fight to restore what's been called the most effective civil rights legislation in U.S. history, Democratic Rep. Terri Sewell of Alabama is unrelenting.
Despite a divided Congress heading into a presidential election year, Sewell is leading a group of House Democrats to reintroduce a bill Tuesday that would shore up and expand the Voting Rights Act of 1965 after the U.S. Supreme Court dismantled key parts of the landmark law.
"The whole movement for voting rights, we know that we can't give up, that old battles have become new again, even though we thought that this battle for voting rights was won on a bridge in my hometown," Sewell tells NPR, referring to the confrontation in Selma, Ala., between police and peaceful demonstrators on the Edmund Pettus Bridge that spurred on the passage of the Voting Rights Act months later.
In the fight to restore what's been called the most effective civil rights legislation in U.S. history, Democratic Rep. Terri Sewell of Alabama is unrelenting.
Despite a divided Congress heading into a presidential election year, Sewell is leading a group of House Democrats to reintroduce a bill Tuesday that would shore up and expand the Voting Rights Act of 1965 after the U.S. Supreme Court dismantled key parts of the landmark law.
"The whole movement for voting rights, we know that we can't give up, that old battles have become new again, even though we thought that this battle for voting rights was won on a bridge in my hometown," Sewell tells NPR, referring to the confrontation in Selma, Ala., between police and peaceful demonstrators on the Edmund Pettus Bridge that spurred on the passage of the Voting Rights Act months later.
Restoring the Voting Rights Act is still on this Alabama Democrat's agenda
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel they better start electing more Democrats...
..."In the fight to restore what's been called the most effective civil rights legislation in U.S. history, Democratic Rep. Terri Sewell of Alabama is unrelenting.
Despite a divided Congress heading into a presidential election year, Sewell is leading a group of House Democrats to reintroduce a bill Tuesday that would shore up and expand the Voting Rights Act of 1965 after the U.S. Supreme Court dismantled key parts of the landmark law.
"The whole movement for voting rights, we know that we can't give up, that old battles have become new again, even though we thought that this battle for voting rights was won on a bridge in my hometown," Sewell tells NPR, referring to the confrontation in Selma, Ala., between police and peaceful demonstrators on the Edmund Pettus Bridge that spurred on the passage of the Voting Rights Act months later.
Named in honor of the late civil rights icon who was bludgeoned by a state trooper with a billy club on that "Bloody Sunday" and later served as a longtime U.S. representative from Georgia, Sewell's bill — the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act — was part of a pair of voting rights bills in the last Congress that President Biden tried to rally lawmakers around in "a moral and Constitutional obligation to act."...
..."In the fight to restore what's been called the most effective civil rights legislation in U.S. history, Democratic Rep. Terri Sewell of Alabama is unrelenting.
Despite a divided Congress heading into a presidential election year, Sewell is leading a group of House Democrats to reintroduce a bill Tuesday that would shore up and expand the Voting Rights Act of 1965 after the U.S. Supreme Court dismantled key parts of the landmark law.
"The whole movement for voting rights, we know that we can't give up, that old battles have become new again, even though we thought that this battle for voting rights was won on a bridge in my hometown," Sewell tells NPR, referring to the confrontation in Selma, Ala., between police and peaceful demonstrators on the Edmund Pettus Bridge that spurred on the passage of the Voting Rights Act months later.
Named in honor of the late civil rights icon who was bludgeoned by a state trooper with a billy club on that "Bloody Sunday" and later served as a longtime U.S. representative from Georgia, Sewell's bill — the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act — was part of a pair of voting rights bills in the last Congress that President Biden tried to rally lawmakers around in "a moral and Constitutional obligation to act."...
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