The John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2023 (H.R. 14) is proposed voting rights legislation named after civil rights activist John Lewis. The...
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The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. It was signed...
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federal Voting Rights Act of 1965, as well as the John Lewis Voting Rights Act (which would restore portions of the federal Voting Rights Act that were...
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President Biden. The John Lewis voting rights act would restore the federal pre-clearance requirement in the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that was struck...
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The John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of New York (NYVRA) is a State Voting Rights Act (SVRA) modeled after the federal Voting Rights Act that is designed...
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John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of Connecticut (CTVRA) is a Connecticut state statute and State Voting Rights Act (SVRA) designed to protect voting rights...
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Voting Rights Act of 1965 in 1970, 1975, 1982, 1992, and 2006. Each of these amendments coincided with an impending expiration of some of the Act's special...
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Vote Act (formerly known as the For the People Act), introduced as H.R. 1, is a bill in the United States Congress intended to expand voting rights,...
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addresses racial discrimination in voting and provides protections beyond those offered by the federal Voting Rights Act of 1965. SVRAs seek to mitigate...
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John Robert Lewis (February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020) was an American politician and civil rights activist who served in the United States House of Representatives...
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Lucas Kunce (section Labor rights)
Section 230. Kunce has said that he would have voted for the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and For the People Act. He supports public Social Security. He opposes...
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restrictive voting laws and voter turnout has hit record lows". In 2021, during the 117th Congress, the bill was renamed the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, in...
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been repeatedly challenged as diluting the voting power of racial minorities, violating the Voting Rights Act. Generally the solution to such violations...
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Raphael Warnock (category Activists for African-American civil rights)
supports expanding the Affordable Care Act and has called for the passage of the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. He also supports increasing COVID-19-relief...
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Protecting the Right to Organize Act, the notion of eliminating the filibuster, and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. Lasry lives in Milwaukee with his...
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Democratic-led effort to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. Sinema did not support the Inflation Reduction Act until after Democratic leaders agreed...
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Selma to Montgomery marches (redirect from Selma Voting Rights Movement)
contributed to passage that year of the Voting Rights Act, a landmark federal achievement of the civil rights movement. Since the late 19th century, Southern...
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Voter suppression in the United States (redirect from Suppression of voting rights in the United States)
or cast a ballot. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 improved voting access. Since the beginning of voter suppression efforts[citation...
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The Butch Lewis Act is an act of the United States Congress that would allow the United States Treasury to provide financial assistance to failing multiemployer...
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Jon Ossoff (redirect from John Ossoff)
limits for federal judges, and he voted to pass the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and the Freedom to Vote Act in 2022. He opposes the decision...
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failure of the U.S. Congress to pass the For the People Act and John Lewis Voting Rights Act into law. The strikes were led by Un-PAC, a national non...
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Hispanic and Latino Americans in politics (section John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2021)
decision, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2021 (VRAA) was proposed to restore the "preclearance" aspect of the Voting Rights Act of 1975. The...
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the form of the Civil Rights Act of 1960, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Civil Rights Act of 1968. Following the...
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1957 act through eliminating certain loopholes in it, and to establish additional provisions. Aside from addressing voting rights, the Civil Rights Act of...
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Terri Sewell (section Voting rights)
Responsibility Act of 2023. In 2019, Sewell sponsored the Voting Rights Advancement Act (which later became the John Lewis Voting Rights Act), which would...
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Joe Manchin (section Voting rights)
People Act due to its lack of bipartisan support. But he has expressed his support for a reinforced version of the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and urged...
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right to vote but would have to meet standards beyond citizenship. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 directly addressed and eliminated most voting qualifications...
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12, 2022). "Biden calls on Senate to change filibuster rules to pass voting rights bills in forceful speech: 'I'm tired of being quiet'". CNN. "Remarks...
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an account in The Verge. It supports the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and the For the People Act. It tries to put "power back in the hands...
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Congress to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act in order to protect voter's rights. "Election Administration and Voting Survey, 2008 [United...
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