Reid: Senate Will Act on Voting Rights
Democrats not happy with Supreme Court decision today
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said on Tuesday that the "Senate will act" to address the Supreme Court's decision to strike down a key part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
First, Reid said he will task Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) to hold "wide-ranging hearings" on the subject beginning next month after Senate Democrats huddled on the issue during their lunch caucuses on Tuesday.
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Democratic politicians in NY and CA lining up to denounce their states as still racist and in need of government supervision...