
A top civil rights lawyer is sounding the alarm on a recent decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, which he says could pave the way for a voter suppression system less than a week from election day.
Damon Hewitt, president and executive director of the nonpartisan Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, was referring tot the high court's blocking of a judge's order to reinstate some 1,600 individuals removed from Virginia's registered voter roll.