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The justices. >> the president knows that there is constitutional legal ground. the supreme court didnt issue a legal impediment decision. justice john roberts said that they left the door open, and of those president plans to barrel through it. >> kellyanne conway not long ago, as you know, the supreme court ruled to block the question, finding the administrations argument, enforcing the voting acts right, simply didnt match up with the evidence in the case. democrats are calling into question ...

Said he does not want to see the federal government to interfere against local statements and those who need the federal government to protect from the state and county governments that may have been doing things that are discriminatory. >> thank you for that question. it gives me a chance to clean it up a little bit. first of all, the vice presidents record is very clear hes always supported the federal government stepping in when states or municipalities and school boards acted in a manner tha...

Last march to reinstate the citizenship question in the census. and the administration said it was going to do that. it hasnt been done since 1950. it was immediately challenged by several states and the groups. they said it was unlawful. what they wanted to do is sit down and interview or depose ross. >> why say it is unlawful why? because it will scare people away from taking part in the census? >> right. they want to get at his rati rational. he said it was done to comply with the voting acts...

>> absolutely. i think there are two groups of people that the democrats are going to rely on to increase their wave, to lengthen and deepen their pick-ups. one is the occasional voters. the reason it is different is that in the democratic party you have these dynamic candidates of color who are appealing directly to those voters. >> right. >> they are running on issues that are fundamental, voting acts and medicaid expansion. there is actually people like these occasional voters for someone to ...

Christians to speak out against jim crow, to speak out against the water hoses and bull connor and illegal voting acts in the south for suppression of votes. thats what dr. king day is supposed to be about, donald trump built a coalition in which the old george wallace or what we used to call dixie crats is part of the coalition. when trump started talking about the dreamers and love and culture and the hard right started, the alt-right came after him and he thought hed throw a line to placate h...

Saying he should have had better outreach to the minority voters. what role does mitt romney have in the campaign now, michael? and honestly the way the gop has been going the voting acts, voting rights act, has that moved very quickly? you didnt have a republican leader at the selma march until mccarthy came in at the last minute. if you look at most of the people who have been insured by president obamas health care law, the highest percentage have been latinos when it comes to minorities. so ...

>> that was one of the highest moments. we call that speech the we shall overcome speech. he delivered that eight days after bloody sunday march 15th 1965. i remember it very well. i cried. dr. king cried. he remembered the president of the united states saying we shall overcome and he said we will make it from selma to montgomery and the voting acts right will be passed. >> you had a southern president, lyndon johnson and it only took him eight days after bloody sunday to go to congress to a jo...

Lack of access to the voting booth, lack of jobs, to get over that, help people escape that century of built-in bad behavior and government mismanagement, you needed something like the great society. >> well, what we needed was equal treatment under the law. we needed the civil rights act of 1964. the voting acts right of 1965. those were needed. we got those. the problem is when the government tries to go beyond equal opportunity and ensure equal results. thats when you get into trouble. what i...

Just this week, the supreme court decided to take a case challenging the district map for the entire state on the basis that it violates the constitution and the voting rights act. the plaintiffs allege that alabamas latest redistricting scheme stuffs black voters into super majority black districts with the intent of preserving the maximum amount of majority white districts, and thus, diluting black voters power in the state. the case will go before the same court that gutted the voting acts ri...

Alabamas latest redistricting scheme stuffs black voters into super majority black districts with the intent of preserving the maximum amount of majority white districts, and thus, diluting black voters power in the state. the case will go before the same court that gutted the voting acts right last week. it will be a high stakes battle with potentially huge implications for the way redistricting and voting rights act are used in the future. joining me to discuss it is author lawrence tribe. aut...