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FROM: The Washington Post,

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Tex.) became the third member of Congress to be arrested during nonviolent protests aimed at rallying support for federal voting legislation that activists say are necessary to push back against new restrictive state laws.

“We pass the Voting Rights Act because my people in Texas are suffering, my people in Mississippi are suffering, my people in Georgia are suffering,” Jackson Lee said shortly before Capitol Police officers prepared to arrest her and six others who blocked the entrance to the Hart Senate Office Building. “We are here to say that voting rights is a fundamental constitutional right. … We will not be moved.”

Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) was arrested at the Hart Senate Office Building last week. The week before, Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio), chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, was cuffed with zip ties and briefly detained.

The protests have been organized by the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, along with several groups led primarily by Black women, with support from other voting rights groups. Virginia Kase Solomón, chief executive of the League of Women Voters, also was arrested Thursday, as was Johnnetta Cole, president of the National Council of Negro Women. Activists from Alabama and Georgia who came to Washington for the protest, also were taken into custody. 

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