Senator John Cornyn

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Senator John Cornyn @JohnCornyn

That provision, Section 5, was originally applied in 1965 to Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Virginia. The additional covered subdivisions included 39 counties in North Carolina and one in Arizona. Subsequently other jurisdictions were added. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 20, 2022

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Senator John Cornyn @JohnCornyn

What @SenOssoff is advocating is that states be required to ask PERMISSION of the Biden Department of Justice before they can make any changes in state voting laws. A similar provision was struck down in 2013 by the United States Supreme Court in Shelby County vs. Holder. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 20, 2022

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Senator John Cornyn @JohnCornyn

By 2009, however, as the Supreme Court noted in Shelby, “the racial gap in voter registration and turnout [was] lower in the States originally covered by §5 than it [was] nationwide.” — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Jan. 20, 2022