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ZAMBOANGA CITY - Representative Mujiv Hataman of the lone district of Basilan has filed a bill seeking to reapportion the province into two legislative districts. Hataman said in a statement Tuesday that House Bill 10407, which was filed on Monday, would allow the local government to keep up with the increasing population of Basilan province, which is made up of two component cities and 11 municipalities. The two component cities are Isabela and Lamitan, while the 11 towns are Tuburan, Mohammad ...

Perhaps one of the most strained departments right now with everything else its tackling. talk to us a little bit about how you see the justice department going about this and trying to reverse this trend of voter suppression. >> great. i havent heard the beginning, so pardon me if i repeat anything, but basically, you know, the justice department has had, traditionally, strong legal tools to enforce the voting rights act. the strongest of which was called section 5, which required before many s...

I still think what georgias doing, what texas is doing, what arizonas contemplating doing is so extreme that even the restrictive section 2 interpretation that the supreme court gave it earlier this year, the -- these laws arent going to stand up under it, so, theres lots to do. >> i was going to say, i cant think of any greater threat to our democracy than diminishing the right of people to vote in this country. neal katyal, thank you. good to see you. thats going to do it for me. the next hour...

Arizona just a few months ago and i think what the attorney general has done over the past few months, attorney general garland, is say im going to enforce section 2 as its written to the tee and so hes actually filed a lawsuit against georgia, saying, look, your new voting restrictions violate section 2 of the voting rights act and what hes doing now in signaling today and yesterday is hes going to bring aggressive enforcement actions against other places that do this, and this is so important ...

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Question. and meanwhile, well have lots of voting changes all over north carolina, georgia, other parts of the country, that we wont even know about and the impact that those are having on african-american and latino voters. >> what do you mean by that, there will be changes we dont even know about? >> well, in the world of -- if the pre-shelby world, any time, if you were in a covered jurisdiction, any time you had a voting change, you had to let doj know, and then they would do a quick evaluat...

The first iraq war, even in the second there was a considerably more tangible international support. there is just simply not much here. and the idea that were going to enforce this everywhere. does this mean if russia decided to use chemical weapons against the chechnyans that we would intervene there against a nuclear power? i dont think so. so i think youve got to look at this realistically. and so far no clear mission. >> let me go to mr. deutsch on this. >> sure. >> second part on this beca...