House Democrats pass John Lewis Voting Rights Act
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House Democrats passed a voting rights act on Tuesday named after late Civil Rights leader Rep. John Lewis.
Democrat lawmakers quickly took to Twitter to celebrate the passage of the bill. The Lewis bill outlines a new, expanded formula that the Department of Justice can use to identify discriminatory voting patterns in states and local jurisdictions. Those entities would then need to get DOJ approval before making further changes to elections. The bill also includes a provision designed to counter the summer’s Supreme Court ruling that made it harder to challenge potentially discriminatory voting changes. A companion bill pushed by Democrats, known as the For the People Act, has stalled in the Senate amid Republican opposition and disagreement among Democrats about whether to change procedural rules in the evenly divided Senate to get it passed.More Related News