Page 4 - Voting Discrimination News Today

With section 2 governing us at this point. >> i think a post-section 5 world will be a scary place. were seeing that immediately, five of nine states fully covered by section 5 rushed to implement new voter i.d. laws. the ink was barely dry in the supreme court and theyre saying were going to implement these laws immediately. it shows how much they want to initiate voter suppression laws. if the chief justice looked at the record since 2006 he would see section 5 blocked 31 laws from going into ...

Debo, said we do. >> thats whats stunning. justice kagan put this question to our adversary during the oral argument. she said, who gets to decide? and the constitution on this point is crystal clear. the 15th amendment puts it with congress to enforce the amendment against racial discrimination in voting. congress looked at this very carefully, as julie mentioned, and studies done at the time and since have shown that the repetitive and adaptive discrimination happens in certain places. congres...

Its an important point that justice roberts, in his opinion, made it seem as if we were in the reauthorization only relying on what had happened a long time ago to determine which jurisdiction need to continue to have the preclearance obligations, when, in fact, what congress did in 2006 was to look very carefully at recent incidents of voting discrimination, what was happening to real voters in real places. justice roberts and the court just got it wrong. they havent walked in the shoes of john...

Is voting discrimination. we think the way congress did this may not be the right way, but congress, its up to you. thats the important part we are now. >> we have a member of congress, a republican who voted for that reauthorization the last time it came up and a current member of congress. a democrat. were going to talk about precisely that. debo adlegbile. julie fernandes. how is congress going to take on this mess? i will ask a democrat and a republican if theres any hope. thats next.

Have the preclearance obligations, when, in fact, what congress did in 2006 was to look very carefully at recent incidents of voting discrimination, what was happening to real voters in real places. justice roberts and the court just got it wrong. they havent walked in the shoes of john lewis. they havent walked to see what discrimination looks like and where it looks that way. >> and they just also, i mean, this is just an amazing act of just of judicial activism. they have just told congress -...

Carefully, as julie mentioned, and studies done at the time and since have shown that the repetitive and adaptive discrimination happens in certain places. congress never said the voting discrimination only happens there. what it said is we need a special response in the places where the case-by-case method is inadequate. >> really important point, too. these distinction are not preserved in amber. there is a way, if you feel like, oh, im the city of boston, this is unfair, were under the voting...

Places whether voting discrimination has been historically prevalent. day one began with a four letter word and a knock-knock joke. what will day two bring? its been four years since michael jackson died. today his son takes the stand in the wrongful death trial. well take a look at the trial as well as michael jacksons impact around the world. [ male announcer ] this is george. the day building a play set begins with a surprise twinge of back pain... and a choice. take up to 4 advil in a da...

Sections 4 and 5 were reauthorized in 2006 just seven years ago with the unanimous support of the united states senate and the near unanimous support of the senate. this is legislative function and sponl sponlts that the constitution gave to congress. the last reauthorizization was signed into law by george w. bush just as prior reauthorizations had been signed by president ford, reagan and nixon with core non-partisan values. racial and language minorities face significant voting discrimination...

But this morning almost half a century after it was first passed, the supreme court struck down a key portion of the law. chief justice roberts position is that the world does not look the same as it did in 1965. according to roberts, our country has changed and while any racial discrimination in voting is too much, congress must ensure that the legislation it pass toes remedy that problem speaks to current conditions. congress had overwhelmingly extended the voting rights act as recently as 200...

Through, she said that commitment has been disserved by todays decision. now one little footnote here. this does not strike down the entire voting rights act. individual civil rights groups can still sue local governments whether they make election changes, and the justice department can still sue to put a state or a county or a city in to the coverage under section 5. but that would and very difficult process. it has to do it case by says, it would have to assemble the facts that there had been...