Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) reacted to the Supreme Court’s Tuesday decision striking down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act by calling it a “win for fairness.”
“Today’s Supreme Court’s ruling invalidating the preclearance requirements contained within the Voting Rights Act is a win for fairness, South Carolina, and the rule of law,” he said in a statement. “The preclearance requirement forced South Carolina to spend millions of dollars to defend a photo identification requirement for voting that had already been ruled constitutional by the US Supreme Court. The court’s ruling will hopefully end the practice of treating states differently and recognizes that we live in 2013, not the 1960’s.”
