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The John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2023 ( H.R. 14) is proposed voting rights legislation named after civil rights activist John Lewis. The bill would restore and strengthen parts of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, most notably its requirement for certain jurisdictions to seek federal approval before enacting certain changes to ...
John Robert Lewis (February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020) was an American politician and civil rights activist who served in the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's 5th congressional district from 1987 until his death in 2020. He participated in the 1960 Nashville sit-ins, the Freedom Rides, was the chairman of the Student ...
Status: Partly in force. The John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of New York (NYVRA) is a New York state law modeled after the federal Voting Rights Act that is designed to prevent racial voter suppression and discrimination. It is named after the late civil rights activist and Congressman John Lewis. [1] The act prohibits voter suppression ...
The John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act, named after the late civil rights activist who represented Georgia in the U.S. House, makes New York one of the first states to bring back a version of a ...
Biden went on to speak of the late Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), a Freedom Rider and founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, who led the protesters over the bridge that day ...
President Joe Biden is promoting bold voting rights legislation and wants Democrats in the Senate to pass it. The stakes The post The Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act, Explained appeared first ...
Shelby County v. Holder, 570 U.S. 529 (2013), was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States regarding the constitutionality of two provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965: Section 5, which requires certain states and local governments to obtain federal preclearance before implementing any changes to their voting laws or practices; and subsection (b) of Section 4, which ...
Lewis, the longtime congressman from Georgia who died Friday at 80, played a pivotal role in bringing about the Voting Rights Act in 1965, helping lead a voting rights march in Selma, Alabama ...