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Way that it had before. the only real question was exactly what the court was going to do. so what the court wound up doing was they upheld section 5 of the voting rights act which requires state and local governments with a history of diskrings to go to the federal government and get approval before they can make any changes to the voting procedures. even things like moving a polling place across the street. so the court left that intact. it said you can still have that. but you need to change the criteria that you use to figure out who's covered. it sent the ball back across the street to co...

The law signed by president johns in 1965, a response to widespread efforts in the south to prevent blacks from voting. >> we're marching today. >> civil rights veteran john lewis watched as the law was signed. >> without the voting rights acof 1965, there would be no barack obama as president of the united states of america. we've come too far, made too much progress to go back. >> this decision represents a serious setback for voting rights and has the potential to negatively affect millions of americans across the country. >> in a 5-4 ruling the court's conservatives said the areas covered ...

Of 1965, there would be no barack obama as president of the united states of america. we've come too far, made too much progress to go back. >> this decision represents a serious setback for voting rights. and has the potential to negatively affect millions of americans across the country. >> in a 5-4 ruling the court's conservatives said the areas covered by the voting rights act have changed but the law has not kept up. the act requires states with a history of voter discrimination to get permission from the federal government before changing how they conduct elections. the court left that p...

Was discriminatory effect on that plan. and so for the supreme court to rule, to strike down the coverage formula in the shelby county case i think is not only ironic, but it's really tragic. i really hope that we in congress will act quickly to make sure that we protect the right to vote for all americans. >> well, you know, jeff, when you look at the fact that the chief justice roberts, he wrote a majority opinion, quote, our country has changed. and while any racial discrimination in voting is too much, congress must ensure that the legislation it passes to remedy that problem speaks to cur...

The united states. what the supreme court did today i think was not only an act of judicial overreach, but it was a real betrayal of minority voters in this country and it was a slap in the face to congress because congress reauthorized the act in 2006. they amassed a 15,000-page record. they looked rigorously at not just what happened in 1965 or 1975, or 1982 when the voting rights act was reauthorized, but they looked at what had been happening in the covered jurisdictions under the voting rights act up until 2006 and they determined that the act had to be reauthorized and that the coverage ...