{"id":753,"date":"2022-05-03T17:40:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T21:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/?p=753"},"modified":"2022-05-03T17:41:27","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T21:41:27","slug":"john-r-lewis-voting-rights-advancement-act-of-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/voter-suppression-and-get-out-the-vote\/john-r-lewis-voting-rights-advancement-act-of-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-754\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/547\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-03-at-5.32.33-PM-300x115.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"755\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/547\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-03-at-5.32.33-PM-300x115.png 300w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/547\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-03-at-5.32.33-PM-1024x393.png 1024w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/547\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-03-at-5.32.33-PM-768x295.png 768w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/547\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-03-at-5.32.33-PM-1536x590.png 1536w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/547\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-03-at-5.32.33-PM-2048x787.png 2048w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/547\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-03-at-5.32.33-PM-624x240.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 755px) 100vw, 755px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2021 was a more recent attempt to restore voters rights. This bill woud mean that all states would have to recieve approval from the Department of Justice or a Federal Court in order to make changes to voting practices which may then affect voting rights.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/house-bill\/4<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2021 was a more recent attempt to restore voters rights. This bill woud mean that all states would have to recieve approval from the Department of Justice or a Federal Court in order to make changes to voting practices which may then affect voting rights. https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/house-bill\/4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":943,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voter-suppression-and-get-out-the-vote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/943"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/government-legal-studies-2005-spring-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}