Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) issued a strongly worded statement in reaction to the Supreme Court’s Tuesday decision striking down a key provision of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, decrying the ruling as a “back door way to gut the Voting Rights Act.”
“As long as Republicans have a majority in the House and Democrats don’t have 60 votes in the Senate, there will be no preclearance,” he said in the statement. “It is confounding that after decades of progress on voting rights, which have become part of the American fabric, the Supreme Court would tear it asunder.”
