Page 2 - Preclearance Process News Today

They would have to be cleared by the justice department in any changes they had to their voting practices. if section five of the voting rights act is struck down, then that preclearance process would go away, and, you know, theres some parts of the country where, obviously, folks have been trying to make it harder for people to vote. >> well, there are nine states covered by section five of the voting rights act. there they are. mostly southern which the president talking about. the states in y...

That preclearance process would go away, and, you know, theres some parts of the country where, obviously, folks have been trying to make it harder for people to vote. >> well, there are nine states covered by section five of the voting rights act. there they are. mostly southern which the president talking about. the states in yellow. its also affected some counties in these additional states in green. you can see that for a total of 16 states. in the 2012 election, section five protections pla...

Country, those areas that had a history of preventing african-americans or ma tee knows or other ethnic groups from voting, they would have to be cleared by the justice department in any changes they had to their voting practices. if section five of the voting rights act is struck down, then that preclearance process would go away, and, you know, theres some parts of the country where, obviously, folks have been trying to make it harder for people to vote. >> well, there are nine states covered ...

Or go about changing voting rules without going to the department of justice first and saying, is this okay? because the history of these jurisdictions is using those mechanisms explicitly to disenfranchise people. theres a long history of that. thats whats on the table, right? >> yes. >> state of alabama brought a challenge to section five saying this is ridiculous. times are changed. stop it. the state of texas went around the preclearance process. we are redistricting the way we want. it came...

April either. the new census gave texas four new seats in the u.s. house going from 32 to 36 seats. they are whats called the cover state under the voting rights act because of the history of racial discrimination. they have to get permission from a court in washington before they can use the new map. they dont have the permission yet. back in texas, lawsuit has been filed by many civil rights groups against this plan. in that lawsuit, a district court re-drew the districts. thats what the supre...

Right. theres afterchance that testimony will not be able to hold it will primary election in april either. the new census gave texas four new seats in the u.s. house going from 32 to 36 seats. they are whats called the cover state under the voting rights act because of the history of racial discrimination. they have to get permission from a court in washington before they can use the new map. they dont have the permission yet. back in texas, lawsuit has been filed by many civil rights groups ag...

Use nar mtheir map as a startin point. there didnt emerge a clear choice for the justices. ill tell you, what seemed to appeal to them. the idea of letting the court up here decide the preclearance issue first. get that out of way and then see if theres still anything for this court to weight into. i think just my own guess from the argument, is this court didnt see a clear answer. wants to delay the texas primary even further. >> thank you very much. well see what the next move is. were follo...