Honorable Jacob Javits
United States Senator, New York, Republican
Senator Javits served in the U.S. Senate from 1957 to 1981. He was Attorney General of New York from 1955 to 1957 and a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York’s Twenty-First District from 1947 to 1954. The following is from the May 26, 1965, Senate floor debate on S. 1564, the Voting Rights Act. I believe it is necessary to make very clear the legal basis upon which we have proceeded, so that what we have fashioned may have the very best opportunity actually to become operative law, and so that the courts, when they come…
