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I then moved on to question him about four cases that he listed on his questionnaire which asked him to list the, quote, ten most significant litigated matters he personally handled. among those ten cases that he listed on his questionnaire were three voting rights cases and a desegregation case. now, that surprised me. thats because i know senator sessions, and i know his record on voting rights. hes no champion of voting rights. he called the voting rights act intrusive and complained about st...

Thats what this is about, because it is a lie. theres no epidemic evidence of it but this is going to be the excuse, the cover. with no voting rights act and with the preclearance gone, it gives them free reign to do this. >> im not sure theres a great conspiracy here. >> its not a conspiracy. its direct. >> hes thin-skinned. hes obsessed with this. hes obsessed with the legitimacy of his presidency and he just cannot let this go. >> and wants to suppress the vote of people who might vote agains...

Elections where those voters were denied the right to vote. and he didnt seem to think there was enough of a problem there to restore the voting rights act where -- where the federal government has preclearance over those states like north carolina that have a history of suppressing the votes of minorities. so i dont think that he necessarily is the right choice to protect the rights of americans. >> thank you very much, senator franken. appreciate your time. >> thank you, erin. next, trump la...

That is the reason you have preclearance, and that is the reason that you cant rely on the district court or the circuit courts to rule. >> mr. chairman, i voted a few years ago for the voting rights act extension for 25 years. it included preclearance in it. we all knew at that time that the supreme court would probably take up a case before long that would have wrestled with the question of whether there is a sufficient basis for the extraordinary remedy of requiring only a few states in the c...

Unsustainable. >> now, north carolina is one of the states that would have been covered by preclearance, was it not? >> north carolina states would be. >> it would have been. >> i would just suggest that section 2 allows all the remedies, and thats what i suppose they filed the action under in this case. it just not a preclearance question, and that preclearance policy is intrusive. and as the supreme court has said -- and i didnt mean that in any pejorative way. i was asked, do you believe its ...

Trial. the jury has returned to the courtroom and delivered a sentence for the murderer dylann roof, they have sentenced him to death. roof represented himself during the penalty phase after being convicted of murdering nine innocent people at the emmanuel african methodist episcopal church after bible study in june 2015. during closing arguments roof an avowed white supremacist tells the jury he, quote, had to do it. dylann roof has been sentenced to death. now lets go back to the confirmation ...

Justified. the supreme court decided that we should not have -- did not have to have preclearance. but section 2 of the voting rights act allows these kind of challenges that senator franken is talking about. thats what was brought in north carolina. that is what is being litigated today. the court did, in fact, find the voter id law was improper as i understand it. so, i believe we proceeded in a lawful fashion, and i did feel in one sense that it was a good feeling that the supreme court had c...

You to vote no for him? >> thats why i said i have not made a tifinal decision. the attorney general is the person who is his job is to make sure that theres not fraud but theres not voter suppression. and it clearly theres voter suppression in north carolina they started when the shelby case was decided which ending the preclearance. this is upsetting evidence. if the court said they targeted aechlt with surgical precision so they did not vote, and this was in effect for several years before th...

Most of the violence is attributable to that. as opposed to policy lses of the obama added a mshgs. the enhancements on electronic system for travel authorization, i think people dont realize im aware of a situation recently where because of the electronic enhancements we were able to stop some one from coming to america that was coming from a visa waiver country to south america, then planning on coming to america and doing us harm. we were able to stop that travel. in fact, since february of 2...

Rights act at the very time that courts all over the country and in the south where im from in north carolina, federal courts are ruling over and over again that these legislatures without preclearance are engaging in the worst kind of voter suppression that we have seen since the days of jim crowe. we had 800 or more less voting sites in 2016 election. hundreds of thousands of votes were suppressed across this country. so, jeff session had a racist, political ideology. now, theyre trying to say...