User Clip: Elijah Cummings on Voting Rights
I'M GOING TO YIELD MYSELF A FEW MINUTES. ONE OF THE THINGS MS. HOBART AND MR. NICK ROMNEY -- ONE OF THE THINGS THAT MRS. HOBART AND MR.… read more
I'M GOING TO YIELD MYSELF A FEW MINUTES. ONE OF THE THINGS MS. HOBART AND MR. NICK ROMNEY -- ONE OF THE THINGS THAT MRS. HOBART AND MR. MEHRBANI, GIVE ME CHILLS WHEN I READ IT, WAS THE 2016 OPINION OF THE FOURTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS. YOU KNOW, WE ARE SITTING AROUND HERE ACTING LIKE NOT IT'S AN UNALIENABLE RIGHT TO BE ABLE TO VOTE AND IT'S SOMETHING TO BE SAID IT'S CHILLING. WE CAN ARGUE BACK AND FORTH ALL WE WANT AND THEY TALKED ABOUT THE LEGISLATURE DOWN THERE IN NORTH CAROLINA. THIS IS A QUOTE FROM THE FOURTH CIRCUIT, THESE ARE FEDERAL JUDGES. THEY SAID BEFORE ENACTING THAT LAW, THE LEGISLATURE REQUESTED DATA ON THE USE BY RACE OF A NUMBER OF VOTING PRACTICES. UPON RECEIPT OF THE RACE DATA, THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY ENACTED LEGISLATION THAT RESTRICTED, UNALIENABLE RIGHTS, THAT RESTRICTED VOTING AND REGISTRATION IN FIVE DIFFERENT WAYS, ALL OF WHICH DISPROPORTIONATELY AFFECTED AFRICAN-AMERICANS. THEY WENT ON TO SAY, THIS IS THE FOURTH CIRCUIT, I DIDN'T SAY THIS, THE FEDERAL COURT SAID I close