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Lawsuit, the naacps lawsuit is tied to a movement. you know, weve been 15 weeks straight having moral monday. thousands of people gathering. 10,000 people last week in asheville. we are mobilizing through voter education, voter registration. we have direct action going on. >> so theres going to be more coming in terms of moving in a parallel track with the legal -- rick, the section 2 part of this lawsuit, which is part of the voting rights act which is an individual cause of action. how likely ...

Gop on immigration reform. watch this. >> what they may argue is it doesnt solve the problem 100%. i dont know a law that solves a problem 100%. social security lifted millions of seniors out of poverty, but there are still some poor seniors. the civil rights act and the voting rights act drastically reduced drizzle in america, but there is still discrimination. it doesnt make bad laws. dont worry about your washington politics. solve problems. >> solve problems. thats the key. >> absolutely. an...

What did they say about how they would deal with the supreme court? >> the fact the supreme court has gutted section 4, which is the map that you would have in the vote rights act that determined preclearance has taken the heart out of the voting rights act. the attorney general announced in his speech, mr. holder, he was going after texas who has changed some of the voting laws and he was going after them any way because he can operate and still not violate the decision of the supreme court. th...

Challenge. the potential for interference in election administration, in addition to harassment and intimidation of voters is very great. >> so why should i care about north carolina? if im not from there, if i dont have some deep connection to it, if im not quite sure where on the map it is or how its different from south carolina, what is it about this state that makes it important going forward into 2014 and 2016? >> the nature of this bill is going to make north carolina ground zero for the ...

Preclearance. so that they welcomed people coming forward and bringing them cases. they assured us they are going to engage in any cases they see. we expect north carolina would come up when this governor signs the bill. so they wanted us to know that this may have been a wounding of what we consider in voter rights with the decision to the supreme court but it does not disable the voting rights act and they intend to go forward and not only protect voting rights for all americans, but enforce t...

Preclearance. but we have the attorney general saying, hey, i can opt texas in any way. theres i way i can do this. to you expect north carolina to be next? >> well be encouraging holder. there will certainly be challenges to these laws. we have clients who are poised and ready to defend their rights under the voting rights act and under the federal constitution. if he means what he says, hes going to have a chance to urge a federal court to bail in the state of north carolina. >> youre an attor...

Basis on which youd be making those challenges except some sort of external ability, say, oh, you dont look like a voter? >> that was the law, now theres an extended ground of reasons that observers can make, challenge. the potential for interference in election administration, in addition to harassment and intimidation of voters is very great. >> so why should i care about north carolina? if im not from there, if i dont have some deep connection to it, if im not quite sure where on the map it i...

Expedient sit with which certain states move towards these different types of laws that would impede the voting, mostly of minorities. sometimes also of college students and seniors and other pockets or demographics that tend to vote democratic. at the end of the day, the gutting of the voting rights act decision was such a strange piece of information because at the end of the day, it argues that because preclearance was working, that we no longer needed preclearance. >> yes. >> but obviously, ...

Through. it seems to me part of what were seeing, what were going to see with civil rights groups and others, theres going to have to be a level of activism now around this, that wasnt necessary when you had the section five preclearance. that sort of opted people in. now youre going to have to have folks on the ground. part of what you do is train largely african-american clergy, and that has been a group key to turning out minority voters. do they see the political work as part of their spirit...

Country? >> i think the question that congress is going to have to look at, because congress is right now looking at whether or not the tools that are left in the voting rights act after shelby county are enough to protect minority voters. and what theyre going to have to look at is whether or not 3-c is a realistic mechanism, the way its currently drafted in order to have the worst actors brought into a preclearance regime to stop discrimination. and are the other parts of the statute also suff...