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Not liz cheney, adam kinzinger, no one on the republican side who voted in favor of this. there is not a single republican who will vote in favor of it. that is a real problem for our democracy because i have made this challenge and offered to republicans over and over again, if they will identify a piece of legislation that they believe is suppressing voters, that is preventing lawful voters from exercising their right to vote, i will join with them in seeking to strike down that law. but there...

It. that is a real problem for our democracy. i have made this challenge and offer to republicans, over and over again. if they will identify a piece of legislation that they believe is suppressing voters, that is preventing lawful voters from exercising their right to vote, i will join with them in seeking to strike down that law. but, theres nothing that they want to do to remove barriers to voting. thats the problem. its not a both sides issue, its a one side issue. >> yeah, the last point i ...

The future justice said the changes would lead to a quote, quota system for those who had elected office. now, its important to know that roberts and company actually feel back then. in 1982, the real authorization passed with bipartisan support. but once appointed to the court, roberts continued his crusade against voting rights. in 2013, he offered the majority opinion and shelby county, which effectively ended the preclearance process, guarding a major part of the voting rights act. last time...

The court struck that down. only certain practices instead of all election laws will have to be precleared with the federal government. among those practices are voter i.d. laws. and arguably if a voter i.d. law is not designed to minimize the political power of minorities, then it is administratively easy for that law to be precleared. we focus so much attention on the bad actors and their efforts to try to put discriminatory law into place that it seems like this is overly burdensome. most jur...

I am here today to sound an alarm. in 2013 the supreme courts decision in shelby county versus holder suspended the preclearance process, the justice departments single most powerful and effective tool for protecting the right to vote. the departments ability to protect the right to vote has been eroded as a result. for the justice department, restoration of the voting rights act is a matter of great urgency. >> that was assistant attorney general kristen clarke issuing a stark warning on the th...

Voting rights act in the preclearance notions. states cant do a lot of the shenanigans either on a state regulatory level, on a state legislative level, without preclearance from the department of justice. that means any substantive procedural change to voting procedures on the state local county municipal level would have to be cleared by the department of justice. my mentor and good friend deval patrick of the civil rights former director of the civil rights division of the department of justi...

Done this. the way they viewed this is that you have row and you have to preserve as much of roe as possible and the state legislatu legislatures. kamala harris came up with a policy that is a voting rights act for choice is abortion rights. the government should sign protections for peoples right to access abortions. >> these states, all of them are playing a very dangerous game to overrule row versus wait. kamala harriss proposal which he has cosponsored with me and tammy baldwin and another l...

They say its going to be good for the republican party. some are not shy theyre referring to those reasons. >> but also in north carolina, there was a pretty naked statement of legislator who said now we dont have to go through the preclearance process. we were going to do a photo i.d. bill. now were going to do the full bill. now they have the package of the early voting cuts and other things like that. one thing i thought was really important about the presidents speech. he was speaking to the...

The national urbanen league. a part of that process of filing the papers later on would be to force texas to obtain federal approval before texas officials change their election law. the process would be under federal oversight for a decade. it is called the so-called preclearance process. the last month, after that supreme court decision, texas immediately moved to enact its new voter i.d. law but holder did not point to that as the reason for his actions. he said that there was another case in...