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  • REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN LABELS TEXAS AS 'DISCRIMINATORY'

    03/09/2014 11:22:07 AM PDT · by mandaladon · 58 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 9 Mar 2014 | LOGAN CHURCHWELL
    MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN--During a filibuster-style radio interview in Milwaukee Friday, senior Republican Congressman James Sensenbrenner (Wisconsin) charged that the State of Texas as a whole had a tendency to discriminate against minority voters and should be placed back under Holder Justice Department supervision thanks to his proposed legislation. After the 2013 U.S. Supreme Court decision to strike down Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act—a policy that held a number of southern states like Texas and other jurisdictions structurally discriminatory toward minorities until proven otherwise—Rep. Sensenbrenner vowed to revive the law. When pressed to justify his desire to again empower the...