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(131,277 posts)'Attorney General Merrick B. Garland on Friday plans to announce steps that the Justice Department can take to secure voting rights.
Mr. Garlands plans, expected to be announced Friday afternoon, come as Republican-led state legislatures push to enact new restrictive voting laws.
In more than a dozen states, at least 22 new laws have been passed that make it more difficult to vote, according to the Brennan Center for Justice, a progressive public policy institute that is part of the New York University School of Law.
Democrats have filed lawsuits against some new voting laws, but that litigation could take years to wind its way through the courts and may have little power to stop those laws from impacting upcoming elections.'>>>
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/11/us/politics/merrick-garland-voting-rights.html