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GOP do-nothinger blocks renewal of Voting Rights Act:

"House Republican leaders on Wednesday postponed a vote on renewing the 1965 Voting Rights Act after GOP lawmakers complained it unfairly singles out nine Southern states for federal oversight.

The Republican leading the objections to the renewal of the Act is Lynn Westmoreland, who apparently finds it objectionable that states which historically practiced discrimination of the most invidious sort for decades are subject to greater scrutiny than those which didn’t have such practices."

(Via Martini Republic.)