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Senators said now that the headache has been removed and based on that they passed the worst voter suppression law and the worst gerrymandering we had seen, it took us four years, 1200 arrests to beat them. they spent $6 million of state money to try to defend retrogression. this is very serious business and its easy to do particularly because we dont have preclearance. the house has to stand strong and say no infrastructure bill until we protect the infrastructure of our democracy, which is vot...

District lines before the 2022 midterm elections even take place. joining me now is jasmine crockett of texas, and reverend dr. william barber, cochair of the peoples campaign and the president of the repairers of the breach. thank you so much both for joining me today. i want to start with you, reverend barber. because one of the challenges that weve had is that there seems to be a stalemate right now in passing the for the peoples act, but this can have dire consequence if we allow republican-...

But as you mentioned, theres a profound need to pass and modernize voting rights and enforcement. the voting right acts, one of the greatest achievements in history by republican party and by the supreme court of both section five which provided for preclearance and section two, which enabled the courts to attend voting rights. history tells us that preclearance is the most powerful tool we have for protecting voting rights. from 1965 to 2006, the government prevented 1200 voting restrictions fr...

Provision in the 2013 ruling, it could take lawsuits in years to force redrawingal districts, diluting voting power of minority communities. aaron haines suggestion i read, no the all of it, some voting rights act. you know, this -- this -- plank or pillar of it that preclearance ensured oversight of stats with history of discrimination made me wonder if we need a new voting rights act for state with a history of disinformation? where you have republicans admitting to passing laws to enhance com...

Be paying attention to? and she had thats almost impossible one because of redistricting. and two, once the districts are redrawn democrats stand to lose ten seats in the house before a vote is even cast. so how do you go up against those two twin tidal waves? >> well, you know, first of all let me just say weve got to put the guardrails back up on the voting rights act. i dont think theres any question about that. im from a state that was under section 5 that was under preclearance, and its one...

Court gutted, calling it antiquated, out of date, and basically unnecessary in todays world. rachels been reporting on attorney general garlands various tests at doj and the challenges he faces. this is surely one of them. and hes out swinging the bat for restoring the full law and its approach, righting of the voting rights acts preclearance provision were still operative many republican voter suppression laws wouldnt have been allowed in the first place, thats the key preclearance issue i ment...

In todays world. rachel has been reporting on attorney general garlands various tests at the age, and challenges he faces. this is surely one of them. and he is out swinging the bat for restoring the full law and its approach writing voting rights act preclearance provision were still operative, many republican voter suppression laws would have been allowed in the first place. thats that key preclearance issue i mentioned. now, if it feels like people are always playing kind of a legal catch up ...

Correct what the supreme court said was wrong with the 1965 voting rights act. now, here is where the rub comes because, in order to reauthorize the john lewis act or h.r.4, as we called it, you have to have a record developed for why youre targeting these specific states. now, before, it was only around six states. what we did the last time out was expand it to around nine to 11 states. but, you know, if you make the preclearance section of the john lewis act apply to all 50 states, there will ...

Can tell you they can pare it down only to a point that it does not diminish the issue of federal preclearance and some of the issues around gerrymandering. those things are nonnegotiable. there may be some other things in the bill that can be negotiableble. thats the nature of the legislative process. we stand strong and clear. we also stand strong and clear about the filibuster. i know that carly is not favor of it. i think either you eliminate it or reform it. no process should be more import...

This. if your meetings in washington here, how prominent is the discussion -- horror how from prominent is talk of the filibuster, doing away with it, reforming it, carving out reform so that voting rights dont have to -- filibuster. how big is filibuster? >> i think we need to get to the substance of the measures? what are they going to do? are they going to amend the for the people act? we need a preclearance revision with a five-year look back, and whether its base on historical data of a sta...