Holder gutting the Voting Rights Act remains perhaps the most damaging decision in generations. The Robert Court’s 2013 ruling in Shelby County v. Republicans have found a partner in their war on voting in the five justicees who form the right-wing bloc of the U.S. Their purpose is nefarious: to make the process so difficult that people just throw up their hands and don’t vote.

That is because they are not an accident but a product of deliberate design.Īcross America, local Republican officials routinely close polling stations in urban areas and communities of color. Tragically, those images of lines snaking for blocks are not been one-off aberrations, but ones we see year after year. This year, Americans in states including Georgia, Kentucky, Texas and Wisconsin have had to wait in line for hours to cast their ballots. Trump’s attacks on voting come at a precarious moment. (Ironically, perhaps the two most prominent cases of voter fraud in recent years were by a Republican running for Congress in North Carolina, and one of my current GOP colleagues from Kansas who was just indicted.) Their assertions aren’t simply overplayed but made up whole cloth: voter fraud is virtually nonexistent in the United States. Trump’s attacks are an extension of the cavalier shouts of “voter fraud” Republicans have been making for ages. And Trump’s false claims that millions of Americans vote illegally targets the legitimacy of our entire democracy. He spews conspiracy theories that undermine our elections. His death at this moment crystalizes the imperative of what was perhaps John’s most important life’s work: protecting your right to vote.īecause there is no question that your sacred right is under grave threat.Īlmost daily, Donald Trump uses his pulpit to target election officials.

The passing of my friend Congressman John Lewis has been a terrible blow.

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