“The Court was turning its back on that,” Holder said, reflecting on Shelby County vs. Holder, the decision that ended Department of Justice oversight of state voting legislation at the center of the VRA. One result, said Holder, has been the closure of 1,700 polling places, disproportionately in neighborhoods with people of color.
Since leaving his post under then-President Barack Obama, Holder has become a leader in the civil rights movement. His recent book, Our Unfinished March, is a history of the fight for voting rights in the United States. In his conversation with Crosscut managing editor Mark Baumgarten he discussed the intersection of the rule of law and the
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