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[ male announcer ] choose your side at oreo.com. iconic members of the civil rights community joining vice president joe biden on the edmund pettis bridge in selma, alabama just moments ago. they are there to commemorate the 1965 civil rights march from selma to montgomery. i want to bring back the brain trust now. ari, bob, alice. listen to who vice president joe biden said earlier today there in sell map. take a listen. >> section v of the voting rights act in 1965, okay. i even got -- i got...

Special privilege from the courts when were talking about changes in elections. times change and i think its a veiled issue for the justices to raise. but i also want to point out in your interview earlier with the reverend martin luther kings daughter earlier, the ceremony today is so important to not only remember how far weve come but, as she said so eloquently, make sure we dont go back to where we came from. >> i would add to what alice said. hear a lot about the rhetoric and heard a lot ab...

Goes to the places where weve had the most innovation of discrimination, thats what justice sotomayor said, the fact that you need to clear it in advance, because when you dont the people down there keep finding all these different ways to use race, to discriminate, to keep people from moving from moving polling places to voter i.d., thats why its pre-clearance, youre discriminating based on race, something weve always said is terrible and the fact that the court wants to get in there and overru...

About the continued pervasive racial discrimination thats going on in the covered jurisdictions about the flexibility of the coverage formula and the mechanism for deciding whos covered. and about how there are ways to address voting discrimination outside of the covered jurisdictions. i think the -- >> lets keep this simple. youre a lawyer. youre lawyering me here. >> im sorry. >> the bottom line is if youre black out there and you want to vote and you live in pennsylvania and theyve been screw...

Under section v. they have to perhaps file a lawsuit, get a lawyer, wait years and years. by that time, they will have been disenfranchised for a number of elections. its important that everything is moot because section v gave them a tool. >> we have so much more to discuss on this issue. if you could hang with us, after the break, we are going to talk about president obama who voiced his opinion. a bipartisan panel to work on improving the electoral process, plus, the future of section v in co...

Them behind them. i dont think sh shlacking is an appropriate term. you have a court that could dismantle a landmark civil rights case in advance of taking up the issue of gay marriage which is not good for the republicans either. >> its not go to see section v struck down. it resin forces the idea they are not a party of everybody. they are the party for an exclusive few. if you listen to governor jindal, he says expand this thing, not restrict it and limit other people. i want to comment about...

That is a politically activist, has a politically activist base of maybe three, maybe four, maybe five justices who somehow, as they did in, i think the important case of citizens united, want to alter the political landscape in a tragic way. this would be a tragedy for the nation were they to eliminate section v and section iv. i predict it would be this supreme court if it were to do that would go down in history like the supreme court in plecy. the supreme court that reversed the gains made a...

If the supreme court says okay, the preclearance is fine in theory, but we are going to throw out the coverage map and send it back to congress, the question is, would congress have the political will to redraw the maps and do what it did in 1965 all over again and sit-down and say okay, lets look at which states are doing a good job and which states are doing a bad job. i cant answer that question. >> let me ask you this question. representative john lewis, who has been long involved in the civ...

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