“As the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act’s signing approaches Thursday, Marione Ingram says we’re backtracking as a country. ‘They’re disenfranchising the poor, the elderly, blacks, Latinos, students,’ she says of voter identification laws and the Supreme Court’s continued refusal to hear challenges to such restrictions. ‘This is, of course, how Hitler came to power . . . ’ ” (Washington Post, August 5).
