Leahy introduces automatic voter registration law

Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., speaks Wednesday in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Room of the U.S. Capitol. Photo by Elizabeth Hewitt/VTDiggerWASHINGTON — Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., last week launched an effort to counter the erosion of one of Lyndon Baine Johnson’s biggest accomplishments as president: the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
The Supreme Court in 2013 invalidated Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, which established a formula to require certain states with a history of discriminatory vot