apology is or if it is to save face on her career. another on twitter some people like to see successful people fail. she apologized. anita said this actions speak louder than words. keep the comments comings. i ll see you back here tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. eastern time. now with alex wagner is next with joy ann. what you got coming up? buckle up for another busy day. supreme court delivers a 5-4 blow to one of the key pillars of the landmark voting rights act. we ll get analysis from nbc s pete williams and richard cohen. debbie. edward snowden s whereabouts
that and goes back to 1965. this law has been updated numerous times with extensive reiteration of the fact by the congress. and the justice is exercising its preclearance options on numerous times. i think what the court did is the court had simply a fixation that it wanted to undermine the voting rights act and did not give consideration. i submitted testimony to the congress in 2005 and 2006 on the experiences in my home state, louisiana, where i served in the legislature when we reapportioned. i served as mayor of new orleans, and on numerous occasions in the period of time from 1965 to the present, louisiana has engaged in unfortunate and regrettable discriminatory voting practices that emanated from the legislature.
the supreme court trusts congress to make the right decision on your right to vote. but the jury is still out whether the court made the right call. it is tuesday, june 25th, and this is now. i m joy reed in for alex wag fler. this morning in an historic ruling, the supreme court struck down section 4 of the voting rights act, a key provision of the civil rights law that designates which parts of the country must have changes to their voting laws pre-cleared by the federal government or federal court. in a 5-4 decision featuring the usual five and the usual four, court ruled that section 4 cannot be enforced until congress comes up with a new way of determining which states and localities must get permission before they change the way feel vote.
speech. they believe the voting rights act ought to be reinstated, to gather here in washington, d.c. and have their voices heard. that s what ought to happen around the country. we are americans. we want the right to vote. we want the congress to do it. we want to do it now. chairman, thank you so much. great to have you all here. i really appreciate it. still ahead, developing news on the groebl mlobal manhunt for e snowden. and vladimir putin raising new questions about where in the world the nsa leaker fled to. plus, we have this. we will respond to the threat of climate change knowing the threat to do so will betray our children and future generations. now president obama is delivering a major address
[ male announcer ] we ve taken 100% whole grain brown rice and wheat, delicious sweet potato, and savory red bean. and woven them into something unexpected. the new brown rice triscuit line; with sweet potato and red bean varieties. a new take on an old favorite. letting shelby county, which not only discriminated in 2002, but discriminated again in voting in 2008. found by the courts to have discriminated. not just a preclearance decision by the department of justice but found by the courts itself with its dirty hands. this is an absolutely an american tragedy. so we continue with more on the break news of the supreme court striking down a key part of the voting rights act.