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Reaction from washington officials today after the supreme court basically said that until congress fixes it, section 5 of the voting rights act is dead. in the near term, at least, it really is up to congress and then the president to make this happen. joining me now is congressman keith elis. he announced he would announce legislation to amend the u.s. constitution to guarantee the right to vote. and former governor of delaware who voted for the reauthorization of the voting rights act in 2006. congressman castle, can i begin with you, it was striking to me today that eric cantor came out and issued a statement saying he supported a reauthorization of the vote rights act, but he was really a voice in the wilderness on the republican side of the aisle. we tried to get republican sitting members of congress to come on the show and talk about the future of this important piece of legislation and basically have struck out. my question to you as someone who voted for it in 2006 when it en ....
0 bipartisan margins. but today in a 5-4 majority decision, authored by chief justice john roberts, a man who has expressed skepticism toward the voting rights act from the time he was a young lawyer in the reagan justice department. the court decided that the formula congress passed is unconstitutional. that congress just did it wrong. they didn t like their math. this despite the fact that the 15th amendment for which hundreds of thousands of americans died, and which explicitly gives congress the authority to enforce right to vote, despite the plain text of that part of the constitution, nope, said roberts and alito and thomas and kennedy and scalia. we don t like the way you did it. so they struck it down. and then said to congress, if you want to keep that law, you seem to like so much, then fix it in a way that we like. if that sounds ambiguous, complicated, it is ambiguous and complicated. it is by design. let s be very clear about what that means. what the roberts court majorit ....