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They watched the press behave like animals four years, people will see breck kavanaugh based on nothing because of cnn and cnn seems proud of that, let a lynch mob against a high school kid, cheered on a summary of riots. they still thought the press would admit the truth of they were cornered, very different thing to watch the media invent stories out of whole cloth in order to spark mass violence. "time" magazine told us that there were weekly conference calls involving leaders of the protest,...

Like to them they were. they watched the press behave like animals four years, people will see breck kavanaugh based on nothing because of cnn and cnn seems proud of that, let a lynch mob against a high school kid, cheered on a summary of riots. they still thought the press would admit the truth of they were cornered, very different thing to watch the media invent stories out of whole cloth in order to spark mass violence. "time" magazine told us that there were weekly conference calls involving...

Court also struck at section 2 of the voting rights act. that is the remaining force that we have as minority voters to protect against voting procedures and practices that would have a discriminatory purpose or discriminatory effect, and make it more difficult for us to vote at this point we need congress to act and we need to move away from these members who were protect the filibuster which has a streak of being used to protect anti -- legislation, and to prevent civil rights legislation we n...

The obamacare case overshadowed the term. >> so people know what that is, melissa, sorry, you were getting there but we have a graphic, too, the question to the court in that particular case is what is the standard that courts ought to use deciding whether a change in election procedures violates the voting rights act. that is the critical one. >> it concerns section two, the remaining sections with teeth of that landmark civil rights litigation since 2013 when the supreme court gutted the precl...

Voting rights act in the preclearance notions. states cant do a lot of the shenanigans either on a state regulatory level, on a state legislative level, without preclearance from the department of justice. that means any substantive procedural change to voting procedures on the state local county municipal level would have to be cleared by the department of justice. my mentor and good friend deval patrick of the civil rights former director of the civil rights division of the department of justi...

Government to advocate on behalf of the people who are criticizing the laws and say that they are unconstitutional or violate federal laws. there used to be under the voting rights act a requirement before the government made any changes in voting procedures changing the dates for advance registration, moving a polling place, anything, they had to get permission either from the justice department or a federal court. that all changed when the supreme court cut the heart out of the voting rights a...

Dozen people linked, as we mentioned earlier, to the house intelligence panel, including its chair adam schiff, as well as member eric swalwell. joining me now is pete williams outside the justice department. and with us national security and intelligence correspondent ken delainian. pete, ill start with you, the attorney general today quite the busy day on that front. walk us through what we just heard from him and what your major take aways from his speech were. >> you know, the attorney gener...

Rights act. he also made clear that he will not support abolishing the filibuster. the senator appeared on fox news to explain his objection to the for the people act. >> i think its the wrong piece of legislation to bring our country together. theyre not supporting that because i think it would devise further. >> so whats the difference between the two bills? well take a look. weve broken down into some bullet points for you. for the people act is pretty wide ranging. it would ban partition ger...

>> this morning joe manchin made news on election reform that could mean the end of an voting rights bill. senator manchin wrote that hell vote against the for the people act. however, he added that he does support the john lewis voting rights act. he also made clear hell not support abolishing the filibuster. the senator appeared on fox news to explain his objection to the for the people act. >> i think its wrong piece of legislation to bring our country together. i think it would divide us fur...

Whether students can be punished for things they say on social media off campus. theres a question about the rules for deciding when states violate voting rights laws when they change voting procedures. thats an important one for trying to decide the court challenges to all the changes that are being made to voting laws around the country. the question of whether theres a religious freedom exception to antidiscrimination laws. this is a case that comes from philly. catholic social services wont ...