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USA Today's Deborah Barfield Berry opens this report on the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act with John Suttles, who marched with Lewis out of Selma in 1965 and is frustrated that a bill carrying Lewis's name has stalled in Congress repeatedly.
The article lays out where the bill stood in the spring of 2024, why passage looked unlikely, and how voting rights legislation became a partisan fight. Suttles is quoted saying that the lawmakers who keep reintroducing the bill mean well, but that everyone needs to come together and get it done.
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Fighting for voting rights, making 'good trouble' in John Lewis' name, now a partisan issue
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For the Fourth of July, USA Today asked people around the country what democracy means to them and what they are doing to keep it. Reporter Deborah Barfield Berry included John Suttles among them…
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The City of Johns Creek held its first MLK Unity Breakfast on January 15 at Taylor Lodge at St. Benedict's Catholic Church. John Suttles, a Johns Creek resident, gave the closing remarks.
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