Al Sharpton Calls Supreme Court’s Voting Rights Decision ‘A Devastating Blow’

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MSNBC host Al Sharpton reacted to news Tuesday that the Supreme Court overturned a key component of the Voting Rights Act, calling the decision a “devastating blow to those of us who need that protection.”

“We will prevail as we did in 1965,” he said on MSNBC’s “Jansing and Co.”

Sharpton, a longtime civil rights activist, said there was a need to “mobilize the national community” and that the nation must “put pressure” on Congress to act.

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