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So massive disparities as the result of state legislative malapportionment. >> is it possible to read into how the court will rule on this? because the roberts court has seemingly taken up these voting cases where in the past they have not moved this far forward. it seems roberts has a distinct interest in these cases. is it too early? >> well i think that sort of given as your previous guest was discussing the voting rights act and the efforts that the current supreme court has made to gut key ...

Everyone already knows. you hit the nail on the head. the 2012 election was a clear indication that this was done for clearly partisan reasons. everyone knows it. ive worked on voting cases for 30 plus years. you piss somebody off when you tell them they cant vote. theyll go back to their house, get their i.d. and bring back their cousins. this wonderful picture of people standing in line trying to exercise that right because they can see it for what it is. >> i think the republicans understand ...

Polling station. >> i think that it is a little intimidating that you have a stick in your hand. >> reporter: the bush justice department brought a suit, but the obama civil rights division dropped most of it prompting a lawyer to quit his job in order to testify that under this administration, d.o.j. will not pursue voting rights cases against african-americans. >> there is a pervasive hostility toward equal enforcement of the law particularly in voting cases. >> reporter: the department insist...

The dismissal of this case which adds fuel to the fire this is a political decisionen not one based on the merits. now we hear that perrelli was meeting repeatedly with this woman cassandra butts. put that in perspective. >> perrelli is meeting are the one council who is not only a farmer lawyer at the naacp defense counsel, but she was a woman who had been blogging prior to the obama administration criticizing the voting section and the bush administration for their handling of voting cases. me...