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Voting rights act it was too racist to be legal. well, after tha supreme court case, which gutted voting rights act in 2013, with the feds no longer allowed to look over their shoulder while they did this, the commissioners went ahead and enacted a big section of their plan that had previously been blocked. they didnt get all the way to where they wanted. they did get rid of one of the democrats, but that one black democratic county commissioner was still there. and so now, ten years after their...

To try and do the things that they had not been allowed to do because under the voting rights act it was too racist to be illegal. after that supreme court case, which gutted the voting rights act in 2013, with the feds no longer a lot to look over the shoulder what they did things like this, the republican commissioner and galveston county texas, went ahead and enacted a big section of the plant that had previously been blocked. they didnt get all the way to where they wanted. they didnt get ri...

Who represent -- who are represented by the 96% that youre referring to that actually want to see this done -- >> dude, dude, joe manchin, dude, joe manchin represents 40% as many people as live in metropolitan detroit -- >> im with you, im with you. thats why i wanted to spend time talking about the process. you got to reform the process. >> you are right on. no, are you right on. >> appreciate it. congressman andy levin, appreciate you spending time with us. appreciate you. coming up, texas ...

Youre referring to that actually want to see this done >> dude, dude, joe manchin, dude, joe manchin represents 40% as many people as live in metropolitan detroit -- >> im with you, im with you. thats why i wanted to spend time talking about the process. you got to reform the process. >> you are right on. no, are you right on. >> appreciate it. congressman andy levin, appreciate you spending time with us. appreciate you. coming up, texas gained two congressional seat thanks to the census. how ...

And asian-americans face discrimination. and so what were seeing here, i think, is not just an attention to demographic change but a kind of real interpretation that does help us to explain the attacks on students learning about structural racism in classrooms and explains some of the anxieties that were behind the january 6th insurrection, for instance. >> absolutely. exactly. i think thats the thing we have to think about. on just the pragmatic level, it also explains what were about to see im...

Districts that would possibly dilute the voting power of minority groups. this data will be one way to check that. so well see how exactly map drawers will use this data and whether or not the debates over these voting maps will certainly a lot of them will end up in court. so its something to watch for. >> absolutely. i think that is the rub. and we also have to watch for how it impacts sort of us in terms of the violence and the national security issues. hanse and janelle, thank you both. grea...

You knew it was pete. will will do you like pete. >> i love pete. i love everyone on fox. pete: janice, brian is my middle name anyway. janice: fantastic. pete: attorney general eric holder leading a nationwide push to redraw congressional voting maps in favor of democrats. steve: next guest says its not a good idea. former wisconsin governor scott walker joins us next ♪ going to rock the boat ♪ ♪ ay." i say, "ill go my own way" with anoro. ♪ go your own way once-daily anoro contains two...

They need to do a deal before the election. >> right. >> and in honesty, the chinese also need to do a deal because its hurting their economy. one thing is clear, though -- even if we get positive job numbers on friday, even if the president continues to push the fed, recession fears despite the stock market being up are here to stay. >> right. >> weve seen this in the bond market. signaling fears of recession. now we see it in manufacturing data. this conversation is not going away despite the ...

Welcome back. this week, we saw our democracy dodge one bullet just to get wounded by another. when the u.s. supreme court ruled against the addition of the trump administrations proposed citizenship question to the 2020 census, which the president is now trying to delay, but also ruled in favor of allowing gerry manned voting maps to stay on the books in maryland and in north carolina, where the states republican dominated legislature has been rightly criticized for drawing the electoral maps t...

Adding the question. president trump weighed in, hes asking his lawyers to "delay the census" quick fact check, it is in the u.s. constitution, article 1 section 2 that the census must take place every ten years. the other big decision today has major political implications for this countrys elections. the justices will allow even the most severe gerrymandering to continue saying the constitution does not allow the courts to weigh-in on how voting maps are drawn. two topics we certainly can see ...