{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://sewell.house.gov/2023/11/rep-sewell-statement-on-8th-circuit-court-ruling-gutting-the-voting-rights-act-of-1965", "Rep. Sewell Statement on 8th Circuit Court Ruling Gutting the Voting Rights Act of 1965", "2023-11-20", "2023", "2023-11", "Democrat", "House", "AL", "Terri A. Sewell", "S001185", "sewell.house.gov", "sewell", "https://sewell.house.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington D.C. \u2013 U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell (AL-07) released the following statement regarding today\u2019s ruling by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals\u2019 gutting Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act:\n\n\u201cThis ruling by the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals is deeply disturbing and wrong as a matter of law. If allowed to stand, it would be the death knell of the Voting Rights Act, stripping individuals and civil rights groups of their ability to fight back against voter discrimination in court. The Supreme Court must reverse this disastrous ruling without delay.\n\n\u201cI\u2019m calling on Congress to immediately pass the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act. We cannot allow extremists to strip away the remaining protections of the VRA.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T01:01:09Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://sewell.house.gov/2023/11/rep-sewell-statement-on-8th-circuit-court-ruling-gutting-the-voting-rights-act-of-1965"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7888390682637691, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}