Despite a divided Congress, Democratic Rep. Terri Sewell of Alabama is still pushing to shore up the Voting Rights Act after the U.S. Supreme Court dismantled key parts of the landmark law.
to end the Senate's legislative filibuster in order to pass the bill with a simple majority.
Rep. Terri Sewell speaks near the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., in March to commemorate the 58th anniversary of"Bloody Sunday," a landmark event of the Civil Rights Movement.Sewell's bill updates the formula to require preclearance for 10 years for any state that, in the past 25 years, had at least 15 voting rights violations, as determined by the U.S. attorney general, committed by localities within the state or at least 10 violations, including one by the state itself.
The bill would amend the section by codifying factors that courts would have to consider when reviewing claims of vote denial. It specifies, for example, that an election rule that is intended to help a political party would violate Section 2 if it is also intended to dilute the power of voters of color or make it harder for them to"cast a ballot that will be counted.
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