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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics.

It's Thursday, April 7th. I'm Dorothy Wickendon, executive editor of The New Yorker writers and editors about politics. It's Thursday, April 7th.

I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of the New Yorker.

Three years ago, after the Supreme Court struck down key provisions of the Voting Rights Act,

Attorney General Eric Holder spoke at an NAACP convention about the importance of the law.

President Kennedy urged his fellow citizens to refuse to accept that anyone could be denied opportunity,

denied education, or denied the future of their choosing just because of the color of their skin.

And he called on Congress to pass sweeping civil rights legislation, outlining a series of proposals that would later be included in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Jeff Tubin is here to discuss why minority voters are still being impeded when they attempt to vote.

Jeff, this has been an issue of yours for many years. In one of your pieces, you wrote that the Voting Rights Act was the

most effective law of its kind in the history of the United States. That's quite a statement.

Why is that? Well, because after the Civil War, the Constitution was amended to give African Americans the vote,

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