Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), Amicus Curiae
Deborah N. Archer, Counsel of Record
John Lewis has served as a U.S. representative from the State of Georgia since 1987. As chair of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee from 1963 to 1966, he was a leader of the civil rights movement. The following is excerpted from the Amicus Curiae Brief for Respondents as submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court on February 1, 2013. Fifty years ago, “at the height of the civil rights movement, when America itself felt as if it might burst at the seams,” Congressman John Lewis and young men and women of his generation put their bodies in the path of…
