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All of these things. rollbacks on early voting, cutbacks on voter registration, same-day registration, new absentee ballot restrictions, photo i.d. ive never seen it all together. i think that the republican legislature came into power in north carolina and john roberts freed them from the restrictions of the voting rights act and they went to town in the biggest bill that they could write. >> reverend, we saw tape of you announcing the lawsuit. what is the next step here for the fight against t...

I think that the republican legislature came into power in north carolina and john roberts freed them from the restrictions of the voting rights act and they went to town in the biggest bill that they could write. >> reverend, we saw tape of you announcing the lawsuit. what is the next step here for the fight fwens this bill which this round of the battle is lost. it has been passed. it has been signed. its going to start going into effect. some provisions, quickly. some not until 2016. what is ...

It? >> the lawsuit i have right here is connected to a movement. we have been meeting for 15 straight weeks among thousands of people and that movement is continuing to grow and galvanize. we are going to fight this with everything we have. we believe that the claim of this lawsuit is very strong. we are going to ask the court to join north carolina, we are going to ask for the process to happen. this is just bad for the nation. this is the first major voter suppression law after shelby. it is a...

If there was no evidence of political activity on the application? is that right? the agent responds based on my current managers direction, uh-huh. >> president obama said he wouldnt tolerate any more improper behavior at the irs. >> it should not matter what the political spector is from. the fact of the that thor is that the irs had to operate with ashes slut integrity. the government has to conduct itself in a way that is true to the public trust that is especially true for the irs. >> repub...

So they are doing everything they can to restructure government and to rig elections and thats why less than one out of five north carolinians agree with them. the monday movement is more popular than the legislature and the government numbers dropped incredibly. what is happening, karen, is they want to pass a voter id law worse than alabama, south carolina, georgia and indiana. but what they forget is that the 15th amendment is still the law. section 5 is still the law. article 6 of our state ...

Wrote, where you made a decision about how to fix this. its your two strikes and youre in. explain this. >> two strikes and youre in is a piece i wrote for reuters that looks at the situation we have. john roberts says some of this data is old and thats not fair to the states. we are going to put aside for the moment whether the states are more important than the people, according to the 14th and 15th amendment, which say it is the people and not the states. because thats what the reconstruction...

John boehner and eric cantor and todays hearings are just a start of a debate that while it has split the republican party to some degree there have been some reasonable republicans left in the building. >> the concern the supreme court had is with that 1965 law. based on old data. it as simple as updating the data then? >> its a great question. look theres one way to do it very directly to john roberts concern which is to update from the literacy test. you can use data from section 2 and take a...

Nothing about that. in fact, they dont even talk about racial polarization and voting very well. theres so much that they get wrong in this decision. thats why it wont stand the test of time. its going to be overruled, no doubt about it. >> if i could jump in on barbaras point, i think the terrible irony is that they didnt look at alabama. the plaintiff in the case, who has an incredible recent record. >> absolutely. >> of voting violations, and has been under the microscope of the justice depar...

Washington. >> as if the irs needed more problems. dan near w he will have to talk about liberal groups as well. all of this coming on the heals of what happened yesterday. >> i intend to invoke my 5th amendment right. >> yet another high level irs employee deputy director in fact gregory roseman pleading the 5th protecting himself by refuse to go answer questions yesterday about a growing contracting scandal abot the irs hes accus of helping steer irs contracts to castillo who secured hundreds ...

Debo, said we do. >> thats whats stunning. justice kagan put this question to our adversary during the oral argument. she said, who gets to decide? and the constitution on this point is crystal clear. the 15th amendment puts it with congress to enforce the amendment against racial discrimination in voting. congress looked at this very carefully, as julie mentioned, and studies done at the time and since have shown that the repetitive and adaptive discrimination happens in certain places. congres...