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Jeff Sessions: It Was ‘Good News’ for the South When the Supreme Court Gutted the Voting Rights Act

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–November 18, 2016

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By Laura Clawson

Senator Jeff Sessions, R-AL, speaks at a rally for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at Ambridge Area Senior High School on October 10, 2016 in Ambridge, Pennsylvania. / AFP / MANDEL NGAN        (Photo credit should read MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)

Here’s how Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general respondedto the Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act in 2013. Jeff Sessions said, basically, sure, voting rights oversight was needed in the past, but the decision “was good news, I think, for the South, in that [there was] not sufficient evidence to justify treating them disproportionately than say Philadelphia or Boston or Los Angeles or Chicago.” After…

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