Terri Sewell: The Last Folks I’d Trust with Restoring Voting Rights Wold Be the Trump Admin

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SEWELL: " Last week and this week was a good week for protecting voting rights. When it comes to protecting voting rights, the last folks that I would trust would be the Trump Administration in doing it. I’m very happy that the DNC put up a special commission. I’m serving as vice chair, and the purpose of our commission is as a direct response to the president, President Trump, establishing this commission on election integrity. I don’t think that we can trust our president when it comes to protecting voting rights. He’s made very — a lot of baseless claims by saying that so many illegal Americans voted in the last election. We are here as a reality check on what’s really going on in this country when it comes to voting rights. Being a native of Selma and the congressperson who represents the civil rights district, there’s no bigger challenge to our democracy than making sure that every American has access to the ballot box. While we don’t have to count how many marbles are in a jar, we both know that photo I.D.S and other modern-day barriers to voting still exist. And so what the Supreme Court said in the North Carolina case is that it proves that photo I.D.S are another way of being a barrier to the access of a ballot box. This progress has been great. But we must be ever vigilant to make sure that we restore the voting rights act of 1969 — 1965. I look forward to dropping my bill on the anniversary of the Shelby decision. I’ll do so on the end of June. I hope to do so in grand fair, because I think there’s no bigger threat to our democracy than protecting every American’s righting to vote."