whether our fragile democracy mends itself or breaks. joining me now is co-chair of the congressional voting rights caucus congresswoman terri sewell whose alabama district holds montgomery, birmingham, and selma. thank you very much for coming to the sunday show. thank you so much, jonathan. so, i made the point just a moment ago that history isn t linear and that advancement is never usually always on a positive trajectory. as the person, the member of congress who represents the three major cities of the civil rights movement that dr. king led, where do you see things going? well, first, jonathan, i think that now more than ever we need to heed the words of john lewis. john said that the struggle for voting rights is not a struggle for a day, a week, a month, but
in our country. you re the cochair of the congressional voting rights caucus and you were one of the faces in your state s democratic delegation. throughout the legislative standoff in the texas legislature and many of the texas legislators that went to washington. i m going to houston tomorrow preaching at lily grieve baptist church, reverend anderson in houston. and i think those legislators were heroes. but despite all of what they did earlier this week, governor greg abbott signed a state senate bill those texas democrats were trying to impede, triggering now third lawsuit in federal court over the law s restriction, which would disproportionately affect minority voters. because we ve been inundated with suppressing legislation in the last year, i don t want this