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Issues. >> absolutely. . political incentives for the republican party are all on the side of restricting voting rights because all of the emergent groups of voters, whether hispanic voters, young voters, women, african-americ s african-americans, minorities, are all trending to the other party. in states like ohio, all of those purple states where barack obama won, all the political incentives to them say restrict voting rights. i think whats great here is attorney general holder is doing exact...

Are political implications to a great many of the courts decisions and so the court and politics have never been far apart. >> and there is a split on the court on whether they believe the constitution is a living, or breathing document and we should be following the original intent. depending on the way we feel, it leads to the 5- 4 decision. you can point out the liberals are more happy with the court an the conservatives right now. and not all. one thing many on the left were unhappy about la...

Laws. and it reminds me, when for instance, when you had civil rights in the 1960s. the democratic party in the south was, it was the home of every white voter in the south. when you had civil rights in the national party embraced it and it was the voting right, they began joining the democratic party. there was this outflow of whites so now in a state like mississippi, it is 90% of white people will vote republican. the theory being offered here is that actually the less white the country gets,...

Tiger woods won a golf tournament in front of nobody because it was really hot. >> on the fourth day, people were there. but on the third day, nobody got to see this, which, i mean, im not a golf fan, this doesnt bother me particularly. and i actually -- can we make this a partisan story, please? can we inject politics here? >> sure. its obamas fault that its so hot? >> can i blame george sorros? >> im sure it was the koch brothers. >> can i blame the new enemy of the right, john roberts? can i?...

Essentially running up toward the election, is there way to stop this sort of thing. is there way to fix it? >> theres one way, which is that the justice department which has the obligation to pre-clear things under section five of the voting rights act could say this affects the voting right offense minorities. its public opinion, public attention and the reaction of local officials, some of whom

When you do something like this this close to the election and do it in secret and do it without double checking, theres no choice but to have errors, to have legitimate people kicked off the rolls. its a not way to make elections secure and safe. >> i think you note the important timing on this. its so close to the election. its by a process where the problems dont seem to be able to be headed off by people are told youre not going to be able to vote or intimidated from trying. given the way th...

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