Blumenthal to Hold Hearing on "Restoring the Voting Rights Act After Brnovich & Shelby County"

[WASHINGTON, D.C.] – U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, will convene a hearing on Wednesday, July 14, 2021 at 2:30 PM titled “Restoring the Voting Rights Act after Brnovich and Shelby County.”

“The Supreme Court’s deeply flawed and anti-democratic decision in Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee appeared to gut Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, replacing its sweeping statutory protection of an equal right to vote with a misguided and entirely judge-made test that favors voter suppression. This appalling decision comes just a few short years after the Roberts Court shredded Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, undoing nearly 50 years of accepted law and rolling back hard-fought civil rights protections,” Blumenthal said.

“This week, we’ll hear from experts on the impact of these decisions and what steps Congress needs to take now to protect the foundation of our democracy: Americans’ right to vote.”

The hearing will include testimony from:

• Jose Garza, San Antonio, TX
• Richard L. Hasen, Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of California – Irvine
• Janai Nelson, Associate Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc.
• Ken Cuccinelli, National Chairman of the Election Transparency Initiative
• T. Russell Nobile, Senior Attorney for Judicial Watch, Inc.

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