Booker: Now We Have Six Members of the Supreme Court ‘Sending Us Back’ to that Century that ‘Make It Difficult’ for Black Voters to Vote

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BOOKER: "Well, for all Americans, Alabama is sacred soil. So much of our democracy came of age there before the sacrifices of martyrs, before Fred Shuttlesworth and Martin Luther King and so many other heroes of Alabama campaigns. We did not have a complete democracy. Blacks were prevented from voting by all kinds of means, from terrorism and lynching, all the way to legislators making it difficult for blacks to vote. And now we have a Supreme Court, six members who are sending us back to that long almost century where black political leadership and black electoral fairness was not represented in the House of Representatives. And we’re going to see now, with surgical-like precision, state house after state house in southern states, them writing maps to try to eviscerate black leadership.“