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The supreme court. roberts said you were too grievous in the way you lied i have to ding you on this the dems got 53% of the vote in wisconsin and patchy fog% of the state assembly seats the gop won 45% and got 64%, almost a super majority. if you rig the game like that, you can get allayw waway with my rule. >> this is exactly why after the supreme court said were going to gut even though a majority of senators, bipartisan have historically and continuously said there is a need for the voting r...

Jurisdictions covered by the preclearance rule. yet he now says its obsolete. >> the only thing miss interesting his decision was a mission accomplished. he essentially declared the end of history. this is a trend of declaring that because barack obama is african-american and president, therefore there is no such thing as discrimination, it is an artifact of history. therefore no remedies need apply. whereas weve traditionally see the supreme court in its post ferguson era as there to protect th...

Strategically, theyre going to live with this. they may not get another president or in the foreseeable future but they are able to make a lot of hay and move politics backwards in quite a few different ways just by working from state legislators and local politics. this kind of decision will allow the south in particular to take a little bit more sort of unfair control over some of those houses and state senator positions. >> professor, forgive me for challenging you. youre not being sinister. ...

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Department have the remedy? leaving it up to congress, leaving anything up to congress these days seep s seems like a cause. where do we go from here on the ruling yesterday? >> i think all paths lead through congress. because congress either has to answer the homework assignment given to them by the supreme court to update the map where the preclearance rule will apply. till they update that map, the preclearance rule is dead in the water. or some other legislative fix. administration officials...