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Lewis bill, and we have to do something about h.r. 1. were working on it. by the way, you know that senator manchin has said that he supports the john lewis bill, which was the pre-clearance, but it may be dealing with the second provision, article 2, section 2, because of the fact that the supreme court is making that decision now. >> so, you know, its interesting to hear that youre so confident that youre going to get this done. seems as if youre hard to make sure that happens. that being soun...

The ballot box so im not worried about the counting procedures because we have lawyer to handle things like that where theres not integrity and shenanigans on the counting process and critical to restore preclearance on the front end and crucial that you really thwart a lot of ballot box con frictions on who decides who gets to vote because it is very difficult to throw out votes when they have been properly cast and very difficult to mess around on the counting process but thats what brian kemp...

The shenanigans on the state level or legislative level meaning any substantive procedural change on the state, local, county level have to be cleared by the department of justice. deval patrick led that process. now kristen clark would lead the process if it were restored under section 5 so we have to recognize the interplay of federal legislation and if joe manchin is on board for nothing else has to be on board for the preclearance. before states enact a lot of shenanigans on the county and a...

Voting rights act in the preclearance notions. states cant do a lot of the shenanigans either on a state regulatory level, on a state legislative level, without preclearance from the department of justice. that means any substantive procedural change to voting procedures on the state local county municipal level would have to be cleared by the department of justice. my mentor and good friend deval patrick of the civil rights former director of the civil rights division of the department of justi...

Version of the voter suppression bill with a few compromises that no one was asking for. the point of why were going through all of this is because the supreme court stripped pre-clearance away. voter i.d. disenfranchises people. whether its a national voter i.d. or some form of voter i.d. is terrible to do. you are saying, we are going to compromise with a few people, we dont know how many, some people. we are okay with disenfran disenfranchising some people. i dont see how anyone could feel co...

Type of voter protections that go further, compromise people can build on that but it is not enough. we need to deal with pre-clearance, we need to deal with no excuse absentee voting. if manchin is a democrat. if cinema is a democrat, they must defend everything john lewis fought for in his life so that the democrats can keep the house and the senate. otherwise barrasso will get exactly what we wants. votes rights have been attacked. if you reason to mitch mcconnell today, they dont see a probl...

What could pass the current congress as we know them? >> so this is the sandwich. you have to put two things together. have you to have this watered down version of the john lewis voting rights act which more or less creates preclearance which means when states want to change things about voting like wisconsin where you go from 180 polling stations to five it would mean you have to get justification and move it through the justice department though it is weakened in the current john lewis voting...

Suppress those votes. under preclearance, the state of alabama couldnt do that without getting clearance from either doj or a court in washington, d.c. after the shelby county case, states and municipalities are now free to make any changes that they want to. they can prune people off of voter rolls, they can close polling place. they can have these id requirements that are so restrictive for voting rights. so we really need a return to preclearance if were going to keep people, texas is a great...

Colleagues in the senate to make sure that we do pass a voting rights act. we reinstate preclearance, that we make sure that we defend this democracy and raise wages and defend health care and all the things at that are connected to voting rights. so tomorrow at 5:00 eastern time, leaders from west virginia will lead a march in charleston, west virginia, calling on senator manchin to use his power to make sure that we do good. >> i want to play some sound from an activist in west virginia, deman...

Requirements that can be so restrictive for voting rights. so we really need a return to preclearance if were going to keep people texas is a great example where the court found that there was intentional discrimination as some of these new rules were passed if were going to keep those states out of the business of suppressing the rights of legitimate voters to vote >> heres the thing. restoring the voting rights act only really makes the difference it is intended to make if you have a justice d...