AG Merrick Garland took aim at the Supreme Court's decisions on the Voting Rights Act in recent years, arguing a majority of the justices have 'taken away some of our tools' to defend electoral opportunities for racial minorities.
Attorney General Merrick Garland took aim at the Supreme Court's decisions on the Voting Rights Act in recent years, arguing a majority of the justices"has taken away some of our tools" to defend electoral opportunities for racial minorities across the country.
"You are right that the Supreme Court has taken away some of our tools, the most important one being Section 5, which allowed us to pre-clear changes in practices and procedures of voting so we could not have to look at every case one by one to determine whether there was discrimination in those patterns in those practices and procedures," Garland told NPR during a recent interview.
The DOJ head's remarks come nearly a month after the Supreme Court accepted Alabama's legal rationale for opposing a second majority-black district in the state.
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