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. >> so what is this john lewis civil rights act that grouchy old joe biden is tired of being grouchy about. at its heart, the bill would give the federal government the to control how the elections ar conducted across the country. states obtain preclearance from the federal government before they can set the rules of their own elections. this means that among other things, the states would no longer have the authority to require voter identification or registration at the polls periods states w...

Intimidation of those election workers. make interfering with a voter registration a federal crime. enhanced transparency in campaign advertisement. and create a federal obligation for companies to report instances of foreign interference. can you imagine that is what the republicans and those two moderate senators are actually blocking? as for the john lewis voting rights advancement act, the bill would reverse the 2013 supreme court decision that struck down portions of the voting rights acts ...

How important it is and we need to stop those laws before theyre enacted. preclearance is very important, and well continue to fight for it. >> the president seems to be taking on a new tone. republicans are frequently asking what they are for -- thats what hes saying about republicans. hes also saying they were not as obstructive i should say back in the obama era. mitch mcconnell responding to that tonight. listen. >> the reason weve not been speaking recently this year is because he adopted t...

Here i find it ironic because it was justice roberts that wrote the majority opinion about 90 years ago in his own shelby county that gutted section five of the voting rights act. thats the one that required preclearance from the justice department four states that had a tradition of discriminating against voters based on race and that was the case where justice ginsburg famously wrote in her dissent, you dont throw away your umbrella in a rainstorm just because youre not getting wet. and throwi...

Rights act back in 2013. its now even more right-wing. a limiting the requirement for states with a history of voter suppression to get federal preclearance for changes to voting laws. including texas, ground zero in turning the former presidents big lie into active voter suppression. with the draconian sellable well passed last year even as democratic flip the state to stop it. but elected officials arent the only ones trying to defend our democracy. we have democracy defenders. yes, it is regu...

Primaries. if you just look at this map, chris, you can see the blatant gerrymandering of it. its an effort to -- gerrymandering is sometimes called packing and cracking, where you either shove all the minorities in one district, where you rank them up so you can get the power. and they have all been shut into one district with two claws reaching way out to hit birmingham and montgomery, alabama, because their majority black cities. in doing, so they have clustered all of the black folks to redu...

Time and it seems to be stalling out and we think that congress can do a lot of things, but we have to depend upon the justice department to enforce the law, and so no matter what we may have passed, we just saw what happened in alabama when the supreme court did not support what the judges did when they said, they found it to be unfair and they said well, it may be unfair, but you can go ahead and have the elections anyway. this is an attack on section 2 of the voting rights act. weve already h...

Law ruling that it unconstitutionally targets black vote voters. in a scathing opinion u.s. district judge mark walker writes the restrictions on drop boxes and voter applications were enacted, quote, with the intent to target black voters because of their propensity to favor democratic candidates. >> the judge put florida under preclearance, that requires certain states to seek the okay of a federal judge or the justice department when making changes to its election rules. chris rock spoke la...

A 1967 interview, some of the old optimism was a little superficial. and now, it must be tempered with a solid realism. and i think that the realistic factors that we still have a long, long way to go. joining me now, congressman colin allred, democrat of texas, was also a civil rights attorney. congressman, always great to see. you love your reaction to judge walkers ruling. >> yeah, well, i think is the young people, say judge walker understood the assignment. he understood what was at risk he...

Luther king junior who said in a 1967 interview, some of the old optimism was a little superficial. and now, it must be tempered with a solid realism. and i think that the realistic factors that we still have a long, long way to go. joining me now, congressman colin allred, democrat of texas, was also a civil rights attorney. congressman, always great to see. you love your reaction to judge walkers ruling. >> yeah, well, i think is the young people, say judge walker understood the assignment. he...