House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) said Thursday evening that he plans to discuss reforming the Voting Rights Act (VRA) with civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), according to Yahoo! News.
Lewis called the Supreme Court’s gutting of a key provision of the VRA a “dagger in the heart” of the legislation. As a result, Congress must now rework the law that established a formula determining which counties with a history of racial discrimination needed federal pre-clearance for changes to their own voting laws.
“I look forward to having some discussions,” Cantor said in an interview with Yahoo! News. “I intend to talk to John Lewis about his thoughts on this matter. I think that you could probably say for both sides of the political aisle–no matter where you come from regionally–that very sacred right to vote is in the underpinning of this country.”
