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So this law will clearly have a negative impact on them. that's the justice department's concern. >> cory, what do you make of this week's news? >> i think the justice department is being consistent. they have been tracking north carolina's efforts as they have in texas, and south carolina, and others. and so they are bringing the hammer done to the extent that they can. i think what's interesting here, this sort of, we step back and think what brought this about. african-americans outperformed whites in the last two elections, presidential elections in north carolina. in 2008, 2012. as soon a...

Evidence that a certain particular group is a feaffecte. here we have overwhelming evidence that 70% of blacks would be affected by reducing early voting. but more than half of the electorate of the state. so there is irrefutable evidence that this is discriminatory. >> yeah. and professor, when you look at this, the motion points out that when you reduce the early voting period, of course, disproportionately, burns african-american voters and takes out one out of three voters when you look compared to 2012. the week of early voting eliminated was 900,000 ballots. 35% of all votes. if you are ...

The doj brief is assertive in confronting the north carolina law, arguing it was crafted to discriminate and that it singles out voting mechanisms like early voting in 2012. it says, 70% of all african-american voters used early voting sccompared to 52% white voters. the brief argues north carolina has been so unfair, federal observers should be deployeden the coming months to ensure that midterm election thzs there are legitimate. and asked that the law be thrown out. the state attorney general admits the changes to the electoral system are not good. >> new election law changes signed by the ...

Going backwards is not an option! not now. not ever. >> it has been a big week for civil rights in north carolina. both through activism on the ground and leadership from the obama administration. on the same day that those moral monday protests resume, airing holder's justice department made another move against some of the harshest voter suppression laws in the nation. the doj along with the north carolina naacp filed a motion asking a federal court to urgently step in and block north carolina's voter information verification act. that is the law that cracks down on some of the voting method...

>> well, i think the justice department as well as the the aclu and the naacp and north carolina are justified in their concern that the democratic process is being harmed by this new law. their argument is simply this. that -- this new law, which limits early voting, which eliminates same day registration during the early period, and which also will implement a new restrictive voter i.d. law. that they would have a disproportionate impact on a number of constituencies including younger voters, the elderly, the handicapped. but on black voters. black voters participated in the last two preside...