Senate Judiciary Committee
Tuesday,
condemned recent attacks on Georgia’s election law that characterized it as a “Jim Crow” measure. Read the lightly edited transcript, below, or watch the video above.
Thank you, Chairman [Dick] Durbin, Ranking Member [Chuck] Grassley, and the members of the committee for the invitation to join you today at this hearing.
My American story begins with my great-great-grandfather, Sals Burgess, who arrived in America as a child shackled in the belly of a slave ship. Sals was sold on an auction block with his mother in Charleston, South Carolina, to the Burgess plantation. He escaped through the Underground Railroad and later became a successful entrepreneur, purchasing 102 acres of farmland paid off in two years.