The Dumbest Voting-Rights Canard

Long lines are the fault of local jurisdictions, often run by Democrats.

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Representative James Clyburn (D., S.C.) speaks in favor of voting rights legislation during a Congressional Black Caucus press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., January 12, 2022.

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It’s been a bad couple of days for the idea that the country is experiencing a wave of racist voter suppression.

President Biden’s Atlanta speech is now widely acknowledged to have spectacularly backfired, and Representative James Clyburn went on a couple of Sunday shows yesterday to try to buttress the president’s case but could only muster farcical non-evidence.

Rich Lowry

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Rich Lowry

Rich Lowry is the editor in chief of National Review.

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