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Scalia and rest on the court may have put the national republican party in a tough spot. they didnt eliminate the vra, just left it up to congress to update the formula for preclearance. if they do this, vra could be back online. democrats and civil rights leaders are calling for, this no surprise there, but so are some republicans. jim sensenbrenner, from wisconsin, who led the house floor fight for vra in 2006 said this week, quote, the voting rights act is vital to americas commitment to neve...

Ground. if general, though, the war on women, the perry being condescending to wendy davis, the advantage is to of this n: goes pro-choice. >> the big decision of the week we want to get to is voting rights, what happens when you strike down section four of r voting rights act and leave se section five in place. the supreme court said in its decision that times have changed. juan, have they? >> i dont see how they come to that conclusion.ac it is interesting to me, they basically placed a bet. i...

Is going to happen. these are where the gains under the voting rights act are the most fragile and can be taken away most critically without anyone knowing. theres an irony, of course, of alabama, the state thats the birthplace of the voting rights act, being the one -- >> you raise an interesting point there. one of the features of the voting rights act and preclearance is if youre changing the map, changing the congressional redistricting, a state thats under preclearance, would have to run th...

Booth from a middle school to a high school, in the same neighborhood, is because theyre bigots. >> i am saying that it is a republican motivation to limit a minority vote because it gives them more chances to get elected. >> no. >> period. by making people show i.d.s, statistically -- >> donny, maybe theres not air conditioning in the middle school. maybe its broken. so oh, god, you know, what, its still hot in september in the primaries in mississippi so were going to move it to the high schoo...

Robert gibbs -- >> so be it. >> so robert, my point, i believe, has been made this morning in that when im talking about how you shouldnt just have this narrow focus on the states where there was institutional racism in 1965, and beyond, but i think weve gotten beyond most of those states the response to that is, yeah, but theres this crack pot in pennsylvania who said such, which is my point exactly. lets not just focus on the nine states that acted ab horntsly pre1965. lets treat every state t...

Voting than otherwise. should we expand it to 50 states. i give you credit, joe. you are a big voice. >> yes, we can. >> you are saying everybody ought to have to ask for preclearance if any efforts are taken to -- which could be construed as trying to prevent people from voting and i support that and we should support that. >> i misspoke. tim hardaway drafted by the knicks. >> robert gibbs, hope and change. >> president obama lamented the supreme court decision and, obviously, like harold said ...

Up with a new way of identifying places that need that special scrutiny of preclearance in order to change their laws. until congress gets around to working on that, it is open season on voting rights right now in america. in texas, today, the republican attorney general announced with todays decision, the states voter i.d. law will take effect immediately." in mississippi today, same thing, the republican attorney general announcing "the process for implementation of voter i.d. begins today." i...

U.s. supreme court ruling today on the voting rights act left in place the basic idea that some states, some counties, have sketchy enough records with regards to racial discrimination and elections that they should have to get pre-approval from the justice department if they want to make changes to election laws. the court threw out existing lists of what those places are which means nobody needs to get preclearance anymore. nobody is getting any scrutiny at all with changing their election law...

Constitutionally justified, our country has changed and while any racial discrimination in voting is too much roberts wrote, congress must ensure that legislation that passes to remedy the problem speaks to current conditions. whats your response? >> my response is that what are the current conditions? we just came out of an election where it was clearly established we still have racial disparities in terms of the protection of the vote. so in order to deal with. >> racially based? >> racially b...

And the doctor standing over the body thinking about what to do next turns out is a republican. the voting rights act did not have section 5 struck down. preclearance still exists theoretically. the voting rights act can be saved right away if congress decides to save it. the democrats want to save it. unanimously. the democrats, they control the senate, their judiciary chairman in the senate today said hell get to work immediately on legislation to save it. the republicans control the house, so...