Todd Akin Suggests the Voting Rights Act of 1965 should be overturned

Aug 17, 2012 21:48

Rep. Todd Akin, the GOP’s candidate for U.S. Senate in Missouri, suggested in an interview that it was time to “look at or overturn” the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Asked directly if seminal federal civil rights legislation that prohibits discriminatory voting procedures needed to be modified or scrapped, Akin said ( Read more... )

missouri, civil rights, states rights

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