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Roberts abolished preclearance and took away a big part of the voting rights act, he said, well, this other part remains. section two is still in force and congressional redistricting still has to be racially fair. in this case, just a few weeks ago, he kept to that promise. it seemed he wanted to make sure people didnt view him as the kind of justice who had just pulled a bag and which, pulled rocks out of it against, and i think something similar is going on here. a few years ago, robert said ...

One congressional district. that is the blue portion you see on your screen. diminishing their voting power. a standing lock -- unconstitutional maps. this ruling was a surprise. why? because nearly ten -- about ten years ago, the supreme court, it was not shy about its willingness to get the voting rights act. getting section five, the section that talked about preclearance. i.e., the section that said that if states wanted to make changes to their voting laws, they needed to check in with the ...

This weekend will be the 58th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday."

New York voters have new assurances that rules won’t be changed to keep them away from the polls.

Rather than waiting to this point. now, when, if they were to get the f.d.a. and abbott and the others in the same room and, say, tell us what are the roadblocks, what red tape should we remove, where should we put a preclearance situation in place to speed up this production. how should we be waiving restrictions on the e.u. and u.k. to import this formula. that would bring some short-term relief and some midterm relief, but this is something they would need to address long-term. look at this s...

Designed to prevent or limit a womans access to reproductive healthcare, that those laws have to come before my department of justice for a review and approval and until we determine that they are constitutional, they will not take effect. >> theres no federal preclearance for these laws, but she was applauded anyway. the question really is, have democrats overpromised and now are losing credibility here where they say, give us the levers of power and we will take care of voting rights, of gun s...

That russia would go into a medical center and now a school with so many people every day losing their lives, i think that it gives them hope anchorage that were standing with them, i think this week will see more aid going, more sanctions because this is justin thank-able. im pleased that dr. biden was there. >> congresswoman, what other concerns you want to see president biden addressed by executive order if need be before november, im thinking about voting rights as well as reform? >> well, l...

Deeply unsettling. and we are now at a point in the discourse of this country where we are back to simply saying that republicans are simply saying that we dont think black voters should have these rights. >> so, joyce, this comes to the essence of the gutting of the voting rights act. thats why were here. the gathering of the voting rights act said that the federal government, all of a sudden, you dont have to go through preclearance with many of these maps. and, as a result, it is creating thi...

Well, just to bring you a little bit behind the scenes here, alicia. We know, all day yesterday, topwhite house aides were working the phones including the president , himself, for a portion of it. To try to ease some of these tensions and these feathers that were clearly ruffled. Republicans, upset by the president linking these two things together. But clearly, that didnt work. That wasnt enough. So they had to release this very lengthy statement. More than eight paragraphs in the president s ...

Well, just to bring you a little bit behind the scenes here, alicia. We know, all day yesterday, topwhite house aides were working the phones including the president , himself, for a portion of it. To try to ease some of these tensions and these feathers that were clearly ruffled. Republicans, upset by the president linking these two things together. But clearly, that didnt work. That wasnt enough. So they had to release this very lengthy statement. More than eight paragraphs in the president s ...