By Sarah N. Lynch and Kanishka Singh
Dozens of U.S. Democratic lawmakers with the Congressional Black Caucus asked the Justice Department to do more to protect voting rights, accusing various states led by Republican governors of trying to restrict ballot access for voters of color.
“These unabashedly racist and partisan attacks on our nation’s democratic principles must be forcefully condemned and expeditiously reversed,” 44 members of the House of Representatives wrote in a letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Monday.
