"But they do not include denying rights of privacy, which underlie reproductive freedoms under Roe, or denial of voting rights." The pivot toward 'states' rights'During the "rights revolution" that began in the 1960s, the debate seemed to be settled on the side of more guaranteed national rights. And Democrats repeatedly noted how much the contemporary claims from the GOP echoed states' rights arguments that Southern segregationists such as Sens. Strom Thurmond and Richard Russell raised against the original Voting Rights Act and other landmark civil rights legislation during the 1960s. But the Democrats' second bill, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, essentially restored the Voting Rights Act, which the Republican-appointed Supreme Court majority has severely weakened.

Source: CNN January 25, 2022 12:11 UTC