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Which means nobody needs to get preclearance anymore. nobody is getting any scrutiny at all with changing their election laws until congress manages to find a new way to figure out who ought to be on that list. republican governors and state legislatures are already today, the day of the ruling, rolling out new round of ways to make voting harder in ways that are racially discriminatory enough that they could not have done them when the voting rights act was still in effect yesterday. joining us...

Leadership of republican leader reince priebus are back at it again with no objection in terms of the supreme court or the voting rights act. >> yeah. what the court really has done in my view is take away the most effective weapon that the justice department had under the voting rights act to keep states from doing this sort of thing. from doing voter suppression. and just as eric holder has used preclearance to keep all sorts of bad things from happening. thats going to be harder now. there ar...

I tend to agree with chuck schumer who basically said that with the house under republican control and needing 60 votes to get anything done in the senate that its unlikely that youre going to see preclearance be done by congress in that format. and i think thats probably correct if i had to guess. i dont know all the facts that were before the supreme court in terms of how they looked to various municipalities and various states that actually have been named and placed into the voting rights ac...

To allow, but that now can be forced through because the voting rights act is dead? dead unless republicans in congress agree that it should be saved. which republican party are you? in a blistering, long, incredulous descent from the courts ruling today, ruth bader ginsburg said the court dramatically overreached. he said, "hubris is a fit word for todays demolition of the voting rights act." john lewis put it in terms just as stark. he said "the supreme court put a dagger in the heart of the v...

Wronged, they have the right to bring suit and to reinstaen sti >> youre referring to section 2 of the votie ining rights act w does remain intact but does not have the preemptive effect. hearing congressman castle talking about the congress you go to work in every day, you work with those colleagues across the aisle. what is your sense of whether this congress can come together around a new formula? >> you know, i believe that when politicians feel the heat, they see the light. and that if citi...

>> youre referring to section 2 of the voting rights act which does remain intact but does not have the preemptive effect. hearing congressman castle talking about the congress you go to work in every day, you work with those colleagues across the aisle. what is your sense of whether this congress can come together around a new formula? >> you know, i believe that when politicians feel the heat, they see the light. and that if citizens step up and tell this congress that they expect every americ...

Saved. which republican party are you? in a blistering, long, incredulous descent from the courts ruling today, ruth bader ginsburg said the court dramatically overreached. she said, "hubris is a fit word for todays demolition of the voting rights act." john lewis put it in terms just as stark. he said "the supreme court put a dagger in the heart of the voting rights act." the thing about this dagger in the heart, though, is that the patient with the dagger in the heart is still alive. and the d...

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 preapproval 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 laws until congress manages to find a new way to figure out who ought...

With the house under republican control and needing 60 votes to get anything done in the senate that its unlikely that youre going to see preclearance be done by congress in that format. and i think thats probably correct if i had to guess. i dont know all the facts that were before the supreme court in terms of how they looked to various municipalities and various states that actually have been named and placed into the voting rights act and saying theres been a change over a period of time. ma...

Able to defeat the tide of demographics in the south. hispanic and african-american votes are going to be overwhelmingly majority in most states. >> reverend, i understand where youre coming from. but i think it is a bit over the top. the outrage over this. >> the reason that its not over the top is because you have removed preclearance. there is no way to stop it. and if we didnt have preclearance last year, three states would have proceeded. so were not talking ancient history. were talking ab...