SAN
FRANCISCO (AP) — Potential 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton kicked
off a series of speeches on Monday with a call to combat what she called an
"assault on voting rights." She
spent most of her 45-minute talk to about 1,000 members of the American Bar
Association assailing a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down a
significant part of the Voting Rights Act and discussing what she sees as
"deep flaws in our electoral system" as it relates to racial
discrimination at the polls.
The former U.S.
secretary of state spoke in San Francisco after receiving the group's highest
award for service to the law. She said her upcoming speeches would look at
national security and U.S. global leadership…..To Read More…..
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