The Supreme Court's ruling in Shelby County v. Holder (2013) removed a key protection for Americans' voting rights. The Voting Rights Act of 1965, overwhelmingly passed (and repeatedly renewed) by Congress and repeatedly upheld by the Supreme Court, required that the U.S. Attorney General's office pre-clear changes to voting laws or procedures in states, counties, and townships with a history of discrimination identified by a specific formula. The USSC ruled this formula was unconstitutional, but subsequent events in numerous states (most recently Arizona) have demonstrated the urgent need for precisely such federal protections. We call on the administration to reintroduce to Congress the originally-bipartisan Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2014 (H.R.3899/S.1945) or comparable legislation.
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