President Obama called again Wednesday for restoration of all provisions of the Voting Rights Act in a letter to the editor of the New York Times magazine in response to a recent story on the law.
Signed "President Barack Obama, Washington," the letter comments on the Aug. 2 piece about efforts to dismantle the protections of the historic 1965 law that cleared obstacles blocking African Americans from the ballot box. The story introduced 94-year-old Rosanell Eaton, plaintiff in a North Carolina case seeking repeal of voting restrictions that the state imposed in 2013.
The magazine got an unusual volume of letters, according to a note from the editor that accompanies Obama’s letter, which was published online Wednesday.