Thanks Murray Kravitz! EXCERPT The president said in a Wednesday interview with PBS NewsHour that he was ready to use all the tools available to protect the vote. “In those areas it’s true that we’ve had some opinions, the most prominent one being the case where the Roberts court struck down a key segment of the Voting Rights Act, where we just have to try a whole range of approaches to make up for those decisions,” he said. “So I will be working with people like John Lewis in reaching out to both Republicans and Democrats in Congress to see if Congress is prepared to amend the Voting Rights Act to ensure that people are not being prevented from voting.” “But Congress doesn’t move real quickly around here,” he continued, “and if we can go ahead and move administratively so that our attorney general can go ahead in jurisdictions that seem to be intent on preventing people from voting and that have a racial element to it, even though largely it’s probably for partisan reasons, then we need to go ahead and –and enforce the law. And the Voting rights Act has a number of tools. Section 4, which was struck down, was not the only tool available.”
Posted on: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 20:15:32 +0000
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