problem by taxing high fructose corn syrup, right, and they want $100 million of taxpayer money from mexico. that concern is legitimate, but the text of the pact doesn t allow for that. it says that any trade provision any provision this trade pact that contradicts u.s. law is not effective. it s not it doesn t go into effect. i hear you, but i don t know how it s better for it to be written that be the way it s written in the pact that the president supports. when i listen to you talk about it, it sounds like a decent deal, but people who are reading it are saying that language isn t there yet. it s not a done deal, and let s also separate the trade deal from the fast track provision because if it comes back, the president said, you know, it s not done, they will have three months to read, it great. have three months to read it and can do nothing but vote it up or down. that s been the case of the every trade deal ever done. for the last several decades. you can t amend
corn syrup, right, and they want $100 million of taxpayer money from mexico. that concern is legitimate, but the text of the pact doesn t allow for that. it says that any trade provision any provision this trade pact that contradicts u.s. law is not effective. it s not it doesn t go into effect. i hear you, but i don t know how it s better for it to be written that be the way it s written in the pact that the president supports. when i listen to you talk about it, it sounds like a decent deal but people who are reading it are saying that language isn t there yet. it s not a done deal and let s also separate the trade deal from the fast track provision because if it comes back the president said you know it s not done they will have three months to read, it great. have three months to read it and can do nothing but vote it up or down. that s been the case of the every trade deal ever done. for the last several decades. you can t amend it to death. here s my question about
irving joyner it a professor at the north carolina university of law. ari, i ll start with you by quoting the post you put up at the nation on voter i.d. you say the most controversial vision of the new law doesn t go into effect until 2016 and thus wasn t discussed much in court. but the state is doing a test run in 2014 where poll workers will ask for photo i.d. but voters don t have to show it. because of the potential for confusion, the north carolina naacp asked judge schroeder to enjoin the test run. how does that make sense to say that this law isn t in place, but how would voters know they don t have to comply with the request? that s the problem. they re going to hear they have to show i.d. they re going to hear poll workers are going to ask for it and voters may not show up because they don t have the right i.d., they don t have the underlying documents to get the i.d., and they won t vote. voter i.d. is going to be a very controversial part of the law. it doesn t come up m
going backwards is not an option! not now. not ever. it has been a big week for civil rights in north carolina. both through activism on the ground and leadership from the obama administration. on the same day that those moral monday protests resume, airing holder s justice department made another move against some of the harshest voter suppression laws in the nation. the doj along with the north carolina naacp filed a motion asking a federal court to urgently step in and block north carolina s voter information verification act. that is the law that cracks down on some of the voting methods used mostly by black voters such as early voting. same day registration and certain voting out of precinct options. the law introduces a strict voter i.d. rule that doesn t go into effect until 2016. the doj brief is assertive in confronting the north carolina law, arguing it was crafted to discriminate and that it singles out voting mechanisms like early voting in 2012.
moral monday family silence is not an option! standing down is not an option! going backwards is not an option! not now. not every. it has been a big week for civil rights in north carolina. both through activism on the ground and leadership from the obama administration. on the same day that those moral monday protests resume, airing holder s justice department made another move against some of the harshest voter suppression laws in the nation. the doj along with the north carolina naacp filed a motion asking a federal court to urgently step in and block north carolina s voter information verification act. that is the law that cracks down on some of the voting methods used mostly by black voters such as early voting. same day registration and certain voting out of precinct options. the law introduces a strict voter i.d. rule that doesn t go into effect until 2016.