Attorney General Opens Battle Over Georgia Voter Suppression In Courts And Campaigns

Attorney General Opens Battle Over Georgia Voter Suppression In Courts And Campaigns

Attorney General Merrick Garland delivers remarks on voting rights in Washington, D.C., on June 11, 2021

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With a major lawsuit seeking to strike down Georgia's new elections law, the U.S. Justice Department started a long and difficult voting rights fight that will reverberate in political campaigns while winding its way through the courts. The lawsuit will face a treacherous path after the failure of a sweeping election bill backed by Democrats in the U.S. Senate and the passage of voting bills in Republican-held state legislatures across the country. The case was filed Friday, the eighth anniversary of a U.S. Supreme Court decision that scaled back the Voting Rights Act, the landmark civil right...

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