Posted on 03/04/2019 7:29:50 AM PST by simpson96
SELMA, Ala. — Speaking Sunday at the historic Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church, former Secretary of State, First Lady, and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton suggested a key Supreme Court decision may have cost her the White House.(snip)
“I was the first person who ran for president without the protection of the Voting Rights Act and I will tell you, it makes a really big difference,” Clinton said.
Clinton prefaced her comments by discussing the history of the Voting Rights Act, which was passed in 1965. The law required federal oversight of voting in nine southern states and an array of other jurisdictions that were found to have engaged in discriminatory practices. Clinton noted the law was reauthorized by Congress in 2006 while she was in the Senate.
“It was based on thousands and thousands of pages of testimony as to why we ... needed the Voting Rights Act. I thought it was a done deal, passed out of the Congress, signed by a Republican president, and then it found its way to the Supreme Court,” Clinton recounted.
Clinton said Republicans who wanted to “pull back rights” were behind the legal challenge that brought the 2013 Supreme Court decision, in which conservative justices struck down the core of the law.
“They found a receptive Supreme Court who came up with the most absurd decision,” said Clinton, adding, “They gutted the Voting Rights Act.”(snip)
“It doesn’t just make a difference in Alabama and Georgia. It made a difference in Wisconsin where the best studies that have been done said somewhere between 40,000 and 80,00” thousand people were turned away from the polls because of the color of their skin, because of their age, because of whatever excuse could be made up to stop a fellow American citizen from voting,” Clinton said.
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The law required federal oversight of voting in nine southern states and an array of other jurisdictions that were found to have engaged in discriminatory practices.
THAT THE DEMOCRAT PARTY PUT INTO PLACE!!!
The Russians gutted our voting rights act? LOL! This hag needs to put a bag over her head and go away.
Is she sticking with this excuse?
You lost you nasty old _itch because you are a sick smelly old azzhole clown and people despise you.
Delusion, if she believed it.
It’s Harris’s campaign theme.
As least Putin could win a fixed election. She can’t even cheat right .
I say amend the voting rights act to ensure illegals can never cast votes no matter what driver’s licenses or other documentation the states have festooned them with.
Amend it to make a permanent ban on voting the penalty for fraudulent voting.
seems she only has one thought in her mind - her. she speaks of little else.
LOL.
She. Just. Can’t. Stop.
Dear Felonius H->! ;
It’s YOUR fault.
Just move on .com .
She’s just adding it to the very long list of reasons why she lost.
Conspicuously absent from the list is her own name.
Shut your PIE HOLE, HAG!
Hillary Clinton blames gutting of Voting Rights Act for her 2016 loss
The South will pay for their Sins till the end of time.
The Voting Rights Act is Unconstitutional on its face.
Donald Trump also ran in that same election. Without the VRA, he WON against a candidate who represented a majority of the population (women) and a majority of the media.
Unfortunately, yesterday’s tornadoes missed her, taking out 25 decent people.
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