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New York Congresswoman Yvette Clarke says during a special orders House floor discussion with Members of the Congressional Black Caucus in response to a Supreme Court ruling in Louisiana vs Callais about racial gerrymandering under the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that since Calais decision came down Republicans across country wasted no time in their zealous pursuit of power moving with lightning speed to enact new Congressional maps in Florida, Tennessee and Missouri and taking aggressive action in Louisiana, Alabama and South Carolina, this was outright power grab and downright theft snatching fair representation from black voters across south of United States about silencing black voices, dismantling majority black districts and rigging map in their favor as elections were already underway, for years they sounded alarm as Voting Rights Act was chipped away piece by piece and today consequences were here and dangerous, not since Jim Crow had they witnessed such sweeping and deliberate effort to disenfranchise black voters, but they were not powerless and not backing down as every inch of progress in this country had been fought for and won through struggle, resistance and courage of people this nation tried to leave behind.