Hillary Clinton is delivering a speech (doubling as an interview, apparently) this afternoon at the historically black Texas Southern University to tackle all things voting rights. She will urge Congress to pass a fix to the Supreme Court’s 2013 gutting of the Voting Rights Act and condemn voter ID restrictions imposed by Republicans in Ohio, Wisconsin, Texas, Florida, and everywhere else where they run the show. The speech coincides with lawsuits that her campaign’s top lawyer, Marc Elias, is filing — not technically in coordination with the Clinton campaign, but certainly in the interests of the Clinton campaign — against Republican-backed voting restrictions in Wisconsin and Ohio.
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