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Justice correspondent. pete joining us with a closer look at some of these voter i.d. measures that states have been looking at and implementing around the country. >> craig, in fact, mississippi voters are trying to decide today whether they will also impose the same requirement in their states. it was three years ago that the u.s. supreme court said that requiring voters to show a government-issued photo i.d. at the polls did not violate the constitutionally protected try to vote. and once the court made that ruling, many other states jumped on the bandwagon. the push for voter i.d. laws cam...

The rug. >> reporter: the push for federal voting rights law comes as 48 states are considering nearly 400 republican-backed bills that would restrict voting. across the south, grass-roots activist organized freedom rides, like those during the civil rights movement, concerned the proposals could again make it harder for people of color at the ballot box. >> it's jim crow 2.0. it's the same impact and the same patterns and that's why we're fighting it. >> reporter: experts say congress is running out of time ahead of next year's midterms. >> soon we're going to be in the 2022 election cycles. ...

The longer you wait the closer you get to midterm election year, the less possibility the wide ranging i think transformative to some degree agenda president biden put on the table gets to getting passed, to put it bluntly. here is the crux, the thing that matters more than anything else, the white house said they want action more than anything else. that might mean they leave republicans aside. they can't leave republicans a side so long as joe manchin says he wants bipartisan stalks. and guys he still wants bipartisan talks. they're looking for bipartisan talks. >> phil mattingly thank you. ...

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