.HayesBrown: Sen. McConnell has spent 30 years making the same arguments against voting rights. Why change now?
the preclearance provisions of the Voting Rights Act — which required states with a history of disenfranchisement to get Justice Department signoff on changes to their election laws:
Republican Sens. Bill Frist of Tennessee, the majority leader, and Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority whip, went on record last week supporting permanent reauthorization of the key section. "Senator McConnell and I want to make clear that America will never renege on the hard-fought gains of the civil rights movement," Frist said. "We don't want anyone to fear that their right to vote will ever be taken away.""The protections in the Voting Rights Act are, frankly, too important to provide on only a temporary basis," McConnell said.
But then the Supreme Court issued its ruling in Shelby County v. Holder in 2013. In a 5-4 decision, the courtbut left the door open to Congress to restore it. That provided McConnell the cover he needed to shift to his preferred default: Instead of backing a law on the books, he would now be opposing what he can frame as new federal overreach.
Instead of backing a law on the books, McConnell would now be opposing what he can frame as new federal overreach.
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