It is hard to imagine an area in which Congress has more express constitutional authority to act than in protecting the right of minorities to vote.

It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.

Congress needs to toughen the laws protecting elections and make clear that anyone interfering with democracy will pay a stiff price.

The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud.

Defending Congressional authority should not be a partisan issue.

An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.