MSNBC All In With Chris Hayes November 5, 2021 00:07:00
It also dramatically increased black voter participation in the south. it prohibited racially discriminatory laws and as you see in the chart it increased black voter participation in the south. look at the graph. the orange barclays are black voter registration before the vra passed. the blue barclays represent registration after the vra. almost instant. look at that. the law has been slowly gutted by chief justice john roberts supreme court over the last few years and for context in the not so distant past reauthorizing the vra used to be a bipartisan non-controversial enterprise. in 2006 no...