Voting Law Changes News Today

Are the most anti-federalist clips possible. they want one system, a national takeover. they want a preclearance of any new state law passed by any state legislature, democrat or republican. it is political malpractice. now, if the democrats want to go into 2022 with their signature issue being preclearance of voting law changes, let them. it will be a massacre but if they have got nothing else to talk, about i guess chuck schumer has to talk about that. >> bret: all right, panel, stand by if yo...

With just democratic voters. schumers point is if youre waiting for republicans, youre waiting until youre blue in the face, theyre not going to be for any voting law changes. schumer is gearing up for a necessary defeat, meaning hes going to lose, he understands that. he sees it as a long term policy prerogative that he does this now. i will say one other issue, katy. there is a bipartisan group thats talking about a scaled-back voting package that deals with things on a much narrower scale, th...

Going to draft a bill, he met with us, im going to draft the bill, reverend, that will republicans will go for and he couldnt get one republican on it. we need to say, quit playing games. we need to move forward. the civil rights community, the voting rights community, the democrats, now the president have given you time enough, not only dont you have years. you dont have months. you dont have weeks. they are changing laws as i speak. were spending this weekend gearing up for voting rights fight...

Memoli near the white house as the president marks martin luther king day. so, mike, the white house put out this video today commemorating martin luther king junior day. the president says we must continue to commit to mlks work. it seems like so many of bidens priorities are unfinished. where does he go from here? >> its a great question. i think you see some of the strategy in the presidents comments today. i want to highlight two. the first seem to be a rebuttal of sorts to what has been the...

Prominent voice calling on fox news to cancel tucker carlsons dangerous propaganda piece about january 6th the head of the antidefamation league saying the show will fan the flames of conspiracy theorists. jonathan greenblatt will be our next guest. in virginia, both candidates urging residents to get out to vote early. we will go live on the ground to virginia and talk about the issues fuelling turnout on both sides. later in the program georgias republican secretary of state calling out me...

State has some justification for it, then that passes muster under the voting rights act so this was the first time the supreme court has ever applied the voting rights act or whats left of it to voting law changes and the past its always been used to measure redistricting tests, you know, when you redraw the lines for congressional or state legislative boundaries. thats the test, he says, he says in the opinion were not announcing a test but heres guideposts so its sort of the next best thing t...

Seeing how republicans reacted to what joe manchin put forth here, does that only validate that argument? >> it might validate the argument, but i think its -- its an irrelevant argument or moot argument because regard lesion of what progress us in the house mostly may say, joe manchin is joe manchin, and youre not going to have him change his mind, and joe biden is a bipartisan man by nature who is an institutionalist and wants to reach across the aisle, so i dont think youre going to change th...

But make no mistake, this is a big victory. after conservatives on the supreme court gutted section 5 of the voting rights act in 2013, texas ruled to enact the restrictive voter i.d. law. since the state no longer had to clear voting law changes with the department of justice. todays news could have big implications for the fight for voting rights across the country. were still waiting on a decision in the voting rights trial in north carolina, which also hinges on section 2 of the law. weve go...

More in it that could be used for education. what i will say to you is that bill was passed by a bipartisan vote and not one single no vote in the homeland security committee. if there is a moving target that would work, alex, i think it is that bill. >> i will just make before i switch gears and pick up something that looked like on the sheet that you held up that flyer for anybody who cannot make that 2:00 city hall meet ing they can join the conversation on twitter and the hashtag is time is ...

Quantity to check some of our top stories making headlines this hour. wall street, thats a big plus sign making a comeback after some pretty stinker days in the past. right now, were up about 102 points following upbeat economic reports particularly coming out of china. the supreme court handed down a real big ruling today limiting part of the votesing rights act of 1965. provision in question was a provision that gave federal authorities some very serious overthyme sight in 15 states that hav...