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One was public accommodations. and then the voting rights act was an attempt to give real power to black people by saying if you want power down the road in any area, you got to vote. and you couldnt vote in the south. >> right. >> because, what was the reason most people were kept from voting -- the reason for the voting rights act? what were the tricks used? >> it was the poll taxes where you had to pay to vote. you had grandfather clauses that said that certain people could vote if they had d...

First the civil rights and then voting rights act. one was public accommodations. and then the voting rights act was an attempt to give real power to black people by saying if you want power down the road in any area, you got to vote. and you couldnt vote in the south. >> right. >> because, what was the reason most people were kept from voting -- the reason for the voting rights act? what were the tricks used? >> it was the poll takeses where you had to pay to vote. you had grandfather clauses t...

Constitution in history it aint broke we should not be tampering with it. >> i am so glad you said that. i think sometimes we forget what an amazing document. they came together and miraculously ended up with a document that governed us and given us a government that is the envy of the civilized world. >> it is a miracle. it couldnt happen today. we could never get agreement today on the first amendment what does it mean about prayer in the schools. couldnt get an agreement on the 5th amendment....

Broke we should not be tampering with it. >> i am so glad you said that. i think sometimes we forget what an amazing document. they came together and miraculously ended up with a document that governed us and given us a government that is the envy of the civilized world. >> it is a miracle. it couldnt happen today. we could never get agreement today on the first amendment what does it mean about prayer in the schools. couldnt get an agreement on the 5th amendment. we were fortunate to get a coll...

Where they might get some hearing on this and thats because, i mean, later cases, school vouchering and privatization of the schools really took off after brown v board of ed was decided and a lot of people decided they didnt want their kid to go to public school anymore because there was going to be a mixture of different races in the public schools and so they started to do these voucher programs, basically shutting down public schools to open up private ones more to their liking and said he n...

Started fighting it in 2000 when i was in the state legislature with then representative scott walker, who is now governor scott walker. he introduced a voter suppression of voter i.d. law. my take on it then and it is now, i dont know how it gets through the state legislatures when you consider that this is not only a constitutionally protected right. it is more constitutionally protected than any other right there is. by the 14th, the 15th amendment, the 19th, the 24th, and then the 26th and t...

It. what happened in the deposition? >> run of the russians and josh asking the california boy his deposition for 40 minutes he took the 5th amendment. >> the kid whose father was fending him. >> they took the 5th when all of the questions were asked which is unusual behavior. if you kill george smith they take the 5th. >> i have to get to mom and sis. >> there were some polygraphs taken by the fbi. joshs lawyer says josh afghan failed his polygraph. >> he fail it had. >> the russian kids? >> ...

Silent. he got on the stand under oath affirmatively misled the judge, that is different. but for it is silently by, protected by the 5th amendment and he never has to aa word should not be punished. bail should be revoked because of the behavior of the defendant after bail has been granted. not because of some facts that came to late that the government should have then about before bail was granted. >>shepard: but the way the government would learn is through the defendant or his attorney and ...

It. what happened in the deposition? >> run of the russians and josh asking the california boy his deposition for 40 minutes he took the 5th amendment. >> the kid whose father was fending him. >> they took the 5th when all of the questions were asked which is unusual behavior. if you kill george smith they take the 5th. >> i have to get to mom and sis. >> there were some polygraphs taken by the fbi. joshs lawyer says josh afghan failed his polygraph. >> he fail it had. >> the russian kids? >> ...

It. what happened in the deposition? >> run of the russians and josh asking the california boy his deposition for 40 minutes he took the 5th amendment. >> the kid whose father was fending him. >> they took the 5th when all of the questions were asked which is unusual behavior. if you kill george smith they take the 5th. >> i have to get to mom and sis. >> there were some polygraphs taken by the fbi. joshs lawyer says josh afghan failed his polygraph. >> he fail it had. >> the russian kids? >> ...