{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.warnock.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/warnock-durbin-statement-on-voting-rights-supreme-court-case/", "Warnock, Durbin Statement on Voting Rights Supreme Court Case", "2025-10-15", "2025", "2025-10", "Democrat", "Senate", "GA", "Raphael G. Warnock", "W000790", "www.warnock.senate.gov", "warnock", "https://www.warnock.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/", "scraper", "The Supreme Court heard oral arguments today in Louisiana v. Callais, which has the potential to gut key portions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965\n\nSenator Reverend Warnock has long fought to protect the voting rights of Georgians, including introducing legislation to restore critical safeguards of the original Voting Rights Act\n\nIf Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is overturned, up to 19 members of Congress representing minority populations could be redistricted out of their seats\n\nWashington, D.C. \u2013\u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement on today\u2019s oral arguments in Louisiana v. Callais:\n\n\u201cAll Americans should have a fair say in who represents them in Congress. Led by a President who tried stealing an election, Republicans have lost all respect for election integrity. We\u2019re now witnessing a never-before-seen political pressure campaign to rig elections by enabling politicians to choose their voters\u2014not the other way around.\n\n\u201cRather than tit-for-tat political games, the American people deserve stability at the voting booth. The Voting Rights Act has provided that consistency for decades\u2014but faces escalating attacks from Republicans dead-set on politicizing election administration.\n\n\u201cBy ruling in favor of Black voters in Louisiana, the Supreme Court can protect fair representation for all Americans, especially those who have been historically disenfranchised by racial gerrymandering and other discriminatory voting practices.\n\n\u201cEven better, we can secure our elections without relying on the Supreme Court. Congress must pass the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act to restore voting protections and strengthen them.\u201d\n\nSenator Warnock is a champion for voting rights, introducing the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act in July 2025,which would update and restore critical safeguards of the original Voting Rights Act of 1965. Named in honor of the late Georgia Congressman John Lewis, the bill would strengthen protections against potentially discriminatory voting practices.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:32:54Z"]], "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://www.warnock.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/warnock-durbin-statement-on-voting-rights-supreme-court-case/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.490914262831211, "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"}