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And i have a treatment, a radical treatment that may help cure the disease when it comes to 2005 and i see a new disease, i think an old disease is gone, why not apply the treatment? >> you said the problem has been solved but who gets to make that judgment really? is it you, is it the court or is it congress? >> that's a big new power that you're giving us, that we have the power now to decide whether racial discrimination has been solved? >> that does strike me as a big new power. linda. >> well, yeah -- even -- something else to say about scalia, too. is that he's mr. no legislative history...

By 25% to 30%. then it's okay -- >> you're saying above -- but gratuity right now is 15%, 18%, 22% in there, you're saying increase pricing above -- >> it's not income that you're taxed on. >> to get back to the same level -- >> well, we just put out a report called a diamond day. we showed that even if you raise wages by the current proposal in congress the one that obama mentioned in the state of the union, it would not increase money in the restaurants by a dollar. food restaurants. some there would be some increase but that's only if restaurants passed 100% of the increase. >> what chris i...

Conners of michigan introduced a one-sentence bill called cancel the sequester act of 2013. the effects of those cuts become known over the next months, perhaps members of congress will get on board. and an environment am statement over the keystone pipeline which would transfer oil to the united states. the report did not find any conclusive environmental reason the pipeline should be built despite the act that as denailed the show, abstracting oil providing more greenhouse gas emissions than more conventional forms do. now a public comment period followed by a review and national interest ...

Act. when afro africans could vote, they began immediately slicing and dicing. and selma, where debo is, the voting rights act, that can be stopped from the department of justice doing that five times in the 1990s. so it's not 400, 700 years ago that we're talking about. we're talking about just a few decades ago. >> and one point about that is that, although this is a challenge to section 5 of the voting rights act, if they think that the justice department is being too strict courts are in charge, ultimately of the enforcement of that, if they feel that the whole jurisdiction in the voting r...

To allocate the power to congress is specifically because states, and to some degree, the court itself, were participants in the perpetuation of racial cast through slavery. and so the country made a different choice. it made a choice to move forward and to actively tend to our democracy with the minority inclusion principle. and the only way to get there is to recognize our history and to recognize its continuing claims. >> i want to play what i thought was a really interesting moment on this question of the balance between congress and the courts on this question. and this is --bert rein is ...