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Of the law or the 15th amendment. you can say somebody has violated their constitutional rights if the result of their action has caused there to be that abridgment on the basis of race. to have that impact. here you have combined what he said, the purposeful intent which makes an even stronger case to do so. thats why hes bringing it under this provision. >> yeah. so garland went as far as to say if the supreme court hadnt struck down a provision of the voting rights act in 2013 that required s...

Intervened in georgia. and frederica, i would ask you to also watch texas. you may be aware that the governor has called a special session in texas for july 8th, and theyre going to go in and theyre going to try to pass this discriminatory voting law in our state as well. and so, if we dont put an end to this now, youre going to see these laws continue to proliferate all over the country, and theyre aimed at making it harder for black and hispanics to vote, and so i want to echo what my colleagu...

That are elected in primaries, which is how you get elected in a lot of these texas counties these days, they want these republican judges that are elected in these primaries to decide whether or not close elections should be overturned. its just -- its insane whats happening here, and so i would ask kristen clarke is everyone else over at doj to continue to watch whats happening here in the lone star state because they are really trying to push the envelope without us having preclearance and th...

That this is something that republicans just werent on board with. and be able to point to the democrats who are going to be able to go back to their districts and say, you know what, we took this issue before the people and prioritized it and we did our part regardless of what the outcome we wanted it to be. >> i guess one other thing, we may see and there was late news yesterday, perhaps senator roy blunt is one to watch on preclearance for voting rights act, that would be incremental to the p...

The way people understand directly and impact on themselves. on the john lewis voting rights act, there are other reasons to put forward, but not everyone understands the detail of preclearance. so, i think there are different reasons. the reality is the republicans are the same republicans, regardless of which bill theyre talking about. theyre not going to come along. certainly not in a public that is -- you know, sufficient enough to override the filibuster. i actually think, chuck, if you bro...

Financing of elections which democrats know that republicans were never going to vote for. so it was quite broad. what joe manchin came up with was something that was a little narrower. republicans will no doubt vote against that as well. and then you get to the question of the filibuster and what are democrats going to do about that, what will joe manchin and senator kyrsten sinema do about it? >> there is a piece to voting rights legislation that isnt a part of this bill, which is the john lew...

The obamacare case overshadowed the term. >> so people know what that is, melissa, sorry, you were getting there but we have a graphic, too, the question to the court in that particular case is what is the standard that courts ought to use deciding whether a change in election procedures violates the voting rights act. that is the critical one. >> it concerns section two, the remaining sections with teeth of that landmark civil rights litigation since 2013 when the supreme court gutted the precl...

Very sorry for the colleagues that helped to bring the mob here. but i still dont see in mitch mcconnells republican senate the opportunity to be able to work in a meaningful way to reform, to protect americans right to vote. i regret that deeply. but when you look, for example, at the way people here on the republican side of the aisle have completely shifted after shelby on the issues around preclearance of elections, just to take that is a major stumbling block for the american democracy. i t...

Voting rights act that said that states that wanted to put in new laws that might restrict voting would have to get preclearance to do that from the justice department. now of course the john lewis voting rights act would try to bring that back but voting rights activists feeling heartened by the attorney general will be hiring more trial attorneys to pursue this as well as looking into things like why it is in america that black voters tend to wait longer to cast ballots than white voters. >> t...

Voting and guarantee early voting, require automatic voter registration. these are the things that are actually going to add people to the rolls and allow people to be able to vote more comfortably with more opportunity through early voting and absentee voting so they cant undercut the ability for people to participant in the process. so we need both of these. we certainly need the elements of both of these. if they want to mash them together in something else, thats a whole other story. but we ...