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Have the preclearance obligations, when, in fact, what congress did in 2006 was to look very carefully at recent incidents of voting discrimination, what was happening to real voters in real places. justice roberts and the court just got it wrong. they havent walked in the shoes of john lewis. they havent walked to see what discrimination looks like and where it looks that way. >> and they just also, i mean, this is just an amazing act of just of judicial activism. they have just told congress -...

Bipartisan margins. but today in a 5-4 majority decision, authored by chief justice john roberts, a man who has expressed skepticism toward the voting rights act from the time he was a young lawyer in the reagan justice department. the court decided that the formula congress passed is unconstitutional. that congress just did it wrong. they didnt like their math. this despite the fact that the 15th amendment for which hundreds of thousands of americans died, and which explicitly gives congress th...

>> why cant this move faster? i know this is washington but this has been going on, we have known about it for a couple of weeks and its drip, drip, drip. speaker boehner made reference to drip, drip, drip the other day. why cant they put them underoath and public and lets have the old fashioned transparency. put them up and do it and move it. >> washington tends to work slowly. you get lawyers involved. it takes a long time. thats going to happen. you saw that with learner, she took the 5th ame...

>> what we see in this group of legislators, theyre acting like the george wallace -- are they engaging with a strategy with 21st century twist. you gave the policies in passing, 500,000 people lose their medicaid january 1st, 2014. 165,000 unemployed workers lose unemployment benefits july 1st, this year. then a slew of voting rights, which not only violate 15th amendment, 24th amendment, violate the state constitution which has been in place 145 years. majority doesnt give you the authority to...

Century and now you have to live with the consequences because thats the way democracy works, what do you say to that? >> i would say the reality is thats not how government is supposed to work because even when you have a majority, can you not violate the constitution. this group of legislators are acting like theyre the george wallaces of the 21st century. you gave the litany of all of the policies that they are in passing, 500,000 people will lose their medicaid on january 1st, 2014, 165,000 ...

Because she was vieds a flight risk. shes not here now. shes not going to have to come back anytime soon if at all. >> talk about this concept of double jeopardy here in the united states because, of course in italy you can be tried twice for the same crime. thats not the case for an american. would there be any circumstance in which she would actually have to face those charges again, and the u.s. would be forced to send her back to italy? >> thats always an open question. i would think it woul...

We saw it in 2009 when the supreme court let the voting rights act stand but it was seen as a stay of execution. the supreme court made it clear to congress they expected congress to step in and clarify and modernize the law if it was going to stay on the books. democrats had a lot on their plate, but they had the white house, the house, the senate. they didnt do anything. do you hold them responsible a little bit for this? >> i dont hold them responsible at all. i think here a bipartisan look a...

Tylenol works by blocking pain signals to your brain. its embodied in the 15th bayer advanced aspirin blocks pain at the site. try the power of bayer advanced aspirin. amendment, the 14th amendment of the constitution. >> is it your contention, sir, that the last election proved that there is an absolute necessity for the voting rights act and in particular section 5? >> i think the election of 12 dramatized more than anything else in recent years the need for section 5 of the voting rights act....

Strongest pushbacks, with the lawyer representing shelby county, sotomayor directly challenges the racial entitlement comment. >> do you think that the right to vote is a racial entitlement in section 5? >> no. the 15th amendment protects the right of all to vote. >> i asked a different question. do you think section 5 was voted for because it was a racial entitlement. >> well, congress -- >> you think there was no basis. >> congress was reacting in 1964 to a problem of race incrimination, which...

Reenacted in perpetuity, and this is a question that you cannot leave to congress. racial entitlement not a question that you can leave for congress! en for you, justice scalia, this is a will fful misreading of th constitution that you adore. so take a look at the awe guts docume document, and right here in section 5 of the 14th amendment and again in section 2 of the 15th amendment, isnt that the same entitlement, a congressional entitlement that says that the congress shall have power to enfo...