{"id":23169,"date":"2013-08-01T16:25:32","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T20:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=23169"},"modified":"2013-08-01T16:25:32","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T20:25:32","slug":"ag-holder-addresses-voting-rights-at-urban-league-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=23169","title":{"rendered":"AG Holder Addresses Voting Rights At Urban League Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><b>ATTY. GEN. ERIC HOLDER<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, <b>Attorney General Eric Holder<\/b> referenced the Supreme Court\u2019s decision to strike down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in a speech to the National Urban League at the organization\u2019s annual convention in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking indirectly to Texas lawmakers, <b>AG Holder<\/b> is turning his attention on the state and asking it to approve any changes to voting rules with the Justice Department via the \u201cpreclearance\u201d rule.<\/p>\n<p><b>Holder<\/b> is clear that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATTY. GEN. ERIC HOLDER &nbsp; On Thursday, Attorney General Eric Holder referenced the Supreme Court\u2019s decision to strike down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in a speech to the National Urban League at the organization\u2019s annual convention in Philadelphia. Speaking indirectly to Texas lawmakers, AG Holder is turning his attention [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}