Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN Texas San Antonio TX- Texas Congressman Joaquin Castro TX-20 released this statement following the Supreme Courts decision to strike Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act:
The courts have found intentional voter discrimination and suppression in Texas as recently as this past year. Fortunately for Texans Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act has been successfully used as a tool for the past 38 years to ensure that these anti-democracy efforts are not implemented.
Todays Supreme Court decision effectively allows these extreme laws to go into effect in places where voter suppression legislation is being pushed through state legislatures. This decision is a major setback for Texans and all Americans whose most fundamental voting rights are being trampled in right-wing state legislatures. In Texas following todays decision the Attorney General is already calling on the most extreme voting ID laws to be implemented in our state. I am committed to working with my colleagues in Congress to act swiftly to ensure that all Americans have the freedom to be full participants of our democracy by protecting every Americans right to vote.
Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN Texas San Antonio TX- Texas Congressman Joaquin Castro TX-20 released this statement following the Supreme Courts decision to strike Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act:
The courts have found intentional voter discrimination and suppression in Texas as recently as this past year. Fortunately for Texans Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act has been successfully used as a tool for the past 38 years to ensure that these anti-democracy efforts are not implemented.
Todays Supreme Court decision effectively allows these extreme laws to go into effect in places where voter suppression legislation is being pushed through state legislatures. This decision is a major setback for Texans and all Americans whose most fundamental voting rights are being trampled in right-wing state legislatures. In Texas following todays decision the Attorney General is already calling on the most extreme voting ID laws to be implemented in our state. I am committed to working with my colleagues in Congress to act swiftly to ensure that all Americans have the freedom to be full participants of our democracy by protecting every Americans right to vote.
