CONGRESSMAN HANK JOHNSON'S STATEMENT ON SUPREME COURT DECISION EVISCERATING THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT

Today, Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts Ranking Member Johnson released the following statement:

WASHINGTON, D.C. - "Today's 6 to 3 MAGA Supreme Court decision in Louisiana v Callais hurtles the precept of democracy for all backwards, in the same way as the equally egregious 1896 Louisiana case of Plessy v. Ferguson, which legalized Jim Crow racism. Today's throwback decision legalizes Jim Crow 2.0 and is a devastating blow to the voting rights of Black people, and to American democracy itself. In the words of the immortal John Lewis -- 'we must get out and vote like our lives depended on it.' "

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