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.
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. A county would be covered if it had three or more violations.
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.
"Change rarely comes from the halls of Congress. It bubbles up from grassroots activism, from mobilizing and organizing in communities," Sewell says about her strategy beyond supporting Biden's reelection and other Democratic campaigns in the coming months."So that's what we plan on doing — organizing and mobilizing on the grassroots level, putting pressure on members of Congress to do the right thing.
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