covering. counselors will help students deal with a shooting. a 12-year-old girl is in custody. officials don t believe the shooting was intentional. fox-2 in detroit. the father of 3 girls abused by former team usa gymnast larry nassar tried to attack the defend. randall asked the judge for 5 minutes along with nassar. the judge refused. the father apologized and the judge offered no punishment. this is a live look miami. a federal rules florida s ban on former felons voting is unconsitutional and needs to be changed. the judge said the current process to restore voting rights is flawed.
are barred from advocating for themselves. all right. that is a great piece. congratulations on it. a really timely one given the fact virginia gubernatorial race election is tomorrow. it shocked me that 5 almost 6 million americans are prohibit freddie vote due to felony restrictions. that breaks down so sharply along racial lines. one in 13 african-americans in the united states are disenfranchised in large part because of these felony restrictions restrictions on felons voting. how do we begin to how do red states or the states where this is happening begin to explain this, the reasoning, the rati rational behind denying the vote. i did hard to defend this. look, when you get out of jail, you ve paid your debt. you don t have your due process taken away. you don t have your right of free speech or religion taken away. voting is a right. rand paul speaking as a
are eligible to vote but who have not been notified. meanwhile, you have tea party groups that are sitting in the wings waiting for some kind of mistake to happen from the confusion and say, look, see, felons voting, voter fraud. i want to talk a little bit about sort of why we think it is okay to permanently disenfranchise people despite the fact that they have paid their dues for whatever crime they have committed. the fact is this has an impact even beyond former felons. your organization got involved with this because african-americans were getting purged from lists even if they weren t felons. in 2000 and 2004 florida invented a new form of purge that targeted former felons and disappropriately affected african-americans and former felons, most of whom are nonviolent and should have the right to vote in this country were on the list. we had a minister that wasn t a
captions by vitac www.vitac.com we begin with the white house riri treat on a major healthcare policy battle with huge political implications. no longer will religious schools and charities be required to provide free birth control to their employees. if they don t the insurance company will have to provide that coverage. the president says it s a win/win. this is an issue where people of goodwill on both sides of the debate have been sorting through some very complicated questions to find a solution that works for everybody. with today ease announcement we ve done that. religious liberty will be protected, and a law that requires free preventative care will not discriminate against women. cnn chief white house correspondent jessica yellin and senior congressional correspondent dana bash. they re trying to to say they didn t but they botched this one at the white house, the handling of it. do they think with this compromise now they could calm the storm? they thin
turning this into some sort of european social welfare state. you know, a place that we don t recognize. and that s just an interesting way of putting it. it kind of narrows the we and kind of gives you a hint as to what it is that he doesn t recognize about the modern sort of diverse multi-cultural america that we have today. and pivoting off of this, i didn t think we would get to the hearing about felon voting rights tonight, but this is santorum asking romney about his super pac and his own position on felons voting. governor romney, super pac has put an ad out there suggesting that i voted to allow felons to be able to vote from prison. i would ask governor romney, do you believe people who have who are felons, who have served their time, who have extended and exhausted their parole and and probation, should they be given the right to vote? governor romney? first of all, as you know, the pacs that run ads on various candidates