‘Contrary to Supreme Court history’: Expert slams appeals court ruling threatening voting rights
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An appeals court has ruled that citizens and groups cannot sue for voting rights violations, a challenge to voting rights experts expect to go all the way to the Supreme Court. "It is a usurpation and a power grab by one judge feeling communicated to. I think we should think a little bit about that–the signals that they are getting from individual Justices…," Sherrilyn Ifill, former president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, tells Joy Reid.
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