Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140621:15:09:00
Before that decision came out -- >> preclearance. >> absolutely not. to your point about the necessity of preclearance, everyone who saw that trial knew wisconsin had no shot, no evidence of voter fraud and we have hundreds of thousands of people who would be disenfranchised by it. they talked about changing the i.d. law, exactly what places like mississippi were doing between 1961 and 1965. you start to win a lawsuit. and then they change the law and you have to start all over ag n again. that's why we needed preclearance. >> it stopped discrimination before it happened. which can impact the ...