March 22, 2019
At a campaign stop in Tupelo, Rep. Mark Baker, who is running for Mississippi attorney general, said the preclearance provision of the Voting Rights Act violated southern states' "sovereignty." Current Attorney General Jim Hood, Baker said, should have joined other red states that successfully petitioned the Supreme Court to strike down the VRA's preclearance requirements in 2013. Photo courtesy Mississippi House of Representatives
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Voting Rights Act Denied Mississippi Its 'Sovereignty,' AG Candidate Says
At a Tupelo campaign stop on Monday, Mississippi State Rep. Mark Baker, a Republican candidate for attorney general, said the 1965 Voting Rights Act violated Mississippi's "sovereignty."
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