Bipartisan pair of U.S. senators call for reauthorization of Voting Rights Act
Posted on AllSides May 17th, 2021
From The Center
Two U.S. senators, a Republican and a Democrat, asked Congress on Monday to reauthorize the Voting Rights Act, as Republican-controlled state legislatures pass measures imposing new curbs on voting.
Democrat Joe Manchin and Republican Lisa Murkowski noted in a letter that the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which outlawed discriminatory voting practices, was last reauthorized in 2006 with a bipartisan Senate vote of 98-0.
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a key portion of the Voting Rights Act in 2013, saying that Section 4, the formula used to determine which...
AllSides Media Bias Rating: Center
Related Coverage
HEADLINE ROUNDUP
What Will India’s Election Mean for the World’s Largest Democracy?
