Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130302:13:36:00
The court would not look at case like the mcgregor case out of alabama, that we cite in our brief where a federal judge in 2011 cites the last supreme court case interpreting the voting rights act. and says, look, it may well be that we've made progress in the south. but some problems in alabama remain stubbornly the same. and he points to evidence in that case where members the state legislature that sit today, referred to african-american voters as illiterates and aborigines. and this was caught on a recorder that the legislator himself was wearing as part of the sting. >> linda. >> well, in...