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CNN The Situation Room June 29, 2013 22:18:00

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 congress to come up with a new coverage formula. but nobody expects that to happen anytime soon. yeah. it left the voting rights pretty much intact but it was just a part of it that changed. andrew, in the fisher case the court could have torn down the policy of affirmative action but it didn t do it. are you surprised the court gave us that decision? i am surprised. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130626:05:03:00

The so-called coverage formula in section 4 of the voting rights act was based on where the worst discrimination was occurring at that time. it is that section that was ruled unconstitutional today by a majority of the supreme court, even though the voting rights act had been renewed by congress several times since 1965, including as recently as 2006 by a republican-controlled house. and a republican-controlled senate. and then signed by republican president george w. bush. chief justice john roberts, majority supreme court opinion believes that the republican congress and that republican president did not know what they were doing. if congress had started from scratch in 2006, it plainly could not have enacted the president coverage formula. it would have been irrational ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130626:09:34:00

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 part intact. but it struck down the map, the coverage formula of where that will requirement applies. that s all of nine mostly southern states and parts of six others. chief justice john roberts said the map is based on decades old data and eradicated practices. in five of the covered southern states, he said, african-americans have a higher voter turnout percentage than whites. opponents of the law who helped shelby county, alabama challenge it, hailed the ruling we ve just elected a black president of the shell bill county board of education over a white incumbent. in a county wide election. african-americans are an integral part of southern political life and that s a good thing and that s never going to change. but writing for the court s four dissenters, justice ruth bader ginsburg said gutting ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130626:02:04:00

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130626:02:04:00
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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130626:09:02:00

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 by the act had changed but the law has not kept up. the act requires state with a history of discrimination to get permission from the federal government before changing how they conduct elections. the court left that part intact but struck down the coverage formula of where that will requirement allies. that s all of nine mostly ....

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