jay christian adams. we don t have a gavel. committee on constitution, civil rights and civil liberties is called to order. authorize to declare a recess of this subcommittee at any time. welcome, everyone, to today s hearing. field hearing on evidence. not a field hearing. on evidence of current and ongoing voting discrimination. i recognize myself for an opening statement. today s hearing of on current and ongoing voting discrimination is part of the house judiciary subcommittee on constitution, civil rights and civil liberties over the course of this year to assess the current need for a reinvigoration of the requirement of section 5 of voting rights act. to consider other ways to strengthen that civil rights statue. i m not sure why we say reinvigoration. that seems to be one of the words we toss around. section 4 was cut out so we need to have a section 4 to activate section 5. section 5 has been made dormant by the supreme court saying section 4 wasn t adequate so we
we don t have a gavel. committee on constitution, civil rights and civil liberties is called to order. authorize to declare a recess of this subcommittee at any time. welcome, everyone, to today s hearing. field hearing on evidence. not a field hearing. on evidence of current and ongoing voting discrimination. i recognize myself for an opening statement. today s hearing of on current and ongoing voting discrimination is part of the house judiciary subcommittee on constitution, civil rights and civil liberties over the course of this year to assess the current need for a reinvigoration of the requirement of section 5 of voting rights act. to consider other ways to strengthen that civil rights statue. i m not sure why we say reinvigoration. that seems to be one of the words we toss around. section 4 was cut out so we need to have a section 4 to activate section 5. section 5 has been made dormant by the supreme court saying section 4 wasn t adequate so we need to find a new te
voter discrimination. today s hearing on evidence of current and ongoing voting discrimination is part of the series of hearings of the house judiciary subcommittee on constitution several rights and liberties, for this year. the current need for reinvigoration of the preclearance requirement of the section five of the voting rights act. to consider other ways to strengthen the civil rights. i m not sure why we say reinvigoration. that seems to be one of the words we toss around. it s not really reinvigoration. it s degradation. section four was cut out so we need to have a section for to activate section five. section five is made dormant because of the supreme court staying section four wasn t adequate. so we need to find a new section. awaken the dormant power of section five. it s widely considered the effective civil rights statute ever enacted on congress. enormously successful and expanding federal authority to present protect the fundamental right to vote. when the
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