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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...

Form of government i.d. >> the justice department will file suit against the state of north carolina to challenge portions of that states highly restrektive new voting law. >> the justice department tackles voting rights in the tar heel state. >> this new law would shrink rather than expand access to the franchise. >> theres a direct correlation between the voter suppression laws we see going on the books now and the attempt to tamp down on the african-american vote. >> these voting changes were...

Speaker, hes also no stranger to shutdowns. this is congressman boehner dumping out a bunch of coal during the 1995 shutdown. he called it a christmas gift from president clinton. look at the hair. the obama administration is taking the state of north carolina to court. today the justice department will file a lawsuit to block new voting rules. the new rules scale back the time period for early voting and state voters must show a valid photo i.d. critics say it will disenfranchise minority and e...

The d.o.g. calls it discrime gnaw terry. they said we will not allow the decision to be determined as open season for the states that are seen as measures that suppress voter rights. they will take actions against jurisdictions that hinder access to the ballot box no matter where it occurs. we will fight aggressively for voter disenfranchisement. we will look at remaining sections of the voting rights act to guard against discrimination and where appropriate to ask federal courts to require pre ...

Get permission in advance before making any voting changes. but you can be sure that theres going to be lots of court battles on this. the law doesnt take effect in 2016, so theres plenty of time to duke this out in the meantime. >> pete williams, thanks so much. appreciate it. i want to bring into our conversation zach roth, national political reporter for msnbc.com, judith brown, whos the codirector of the narc advancement project, and sirius xms michael smerconish. judith, i want to start wit...

Authority over states with a deep history of racial discrimination. so what is the part that the department of justice is invoking now in order to try to put texas back under extra scrutiny? >> theres a provision in the voting rights act, section 3-c, which provides where jurisdictions have intentionally discriminated in one aspect, particularly in voting, those jurisdictions can be subject to submitting their voting changes for preclearance or preapproval to the department of justice or to a th...

Rights act, itself, the part the supreme court invalidated was a part that gave the department of justice or the federal government, rather, a kind of authority over states with a deep history of racial discrimination. so what is the part that the department of justice is invoking now in order to try to put texas back under extra scrutiny? >> theres a provision in the voting rights act, section 3-c, which provides where jurisdictions have intentionally discriminated in one aspect, particularly i...

Justice or the federal government, rather, a kind of authority over states with a deep history of racial discrimination. so what is the part that the department of justice is invoking now in order to try to put texas back under extra scrutiny? >> theres a provision in the voting rights act, section 3-c, which provides where jurisdictions have intentionally discriminated in one aspect, particularly in voting, those jurisdictions can be subject to submitting their voting changes for preclearance o...

Act. theres section two, a provision that allows for private litigants and for the department of justice to pursue discriminatory changes to methods of elections, and the hopes of other discriminatory voting measures as a provision that allows for jurisdictions that have intensely discriminated to be bailed in to coverage, where they have to submit their voting changes for approval. but i like the point that congressman lewis made about how the supreme courts devastating, and really, disgraceful...

Currently recognize their unions. and the court essentially legalized same-sex marriage in california by punting honest decision and restoring the original ruling of a trial judge that overturned proposition 8. on the other hand, there is disappointment and uncertainty for the future of democracy after the court gutted a signature piece of legislation that has secured the right to vote for millions of americans for nearly 50 years. the courts invalidation of section 4 of the voting rights act re...