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And this is something that because it is an impediment to voting, wouldn't have been allowed but for that recent supreme court decision that invalidated part of the voting rights act. >> specifically waller county used to have to prove to the justice department if they are making any change in their policies and practices around voting, it wasn't intend today or have the effect of racial discrimination. now since the conservative majority on the supreme court killed the voting rights act, gutted that part of it, they no longer have to make that proof. i'll ask you one last question before you ...

Delivering a letter would end up being kept in custody for two hours and they put their hands on jacob, they wouldn't let him go. they threatened to hold him for multiple days. i was horrified that they would do this to someone for the simple act of delivering a letter. >> and what's the status of the students who are the subject of that letter? i ran through a little bit of the history of prairie view a&m. honestly, i could do a week long series about that history because it is such an important thing in american civil rights and what those students have been up against, what they have fought...

Well. and honestly, that might have been one of the most chilling parts of the entire encounter because there's like, i mean, it's pretty clear where someone's coming from when they ask you a question like that. >> yeah, especially when they follow-up by arresting you. >> exactly, exactly. it was a very, very chilling question. and as i said, mike heard it, too. so i can definitely confirm that. >> democratic congressional candidate mike siegl is running against michael mccaul, republican incumbent in texas. jacob, i hope you get some sleep. thanks for making time for talking with us. >> any t...

To deliver this letter. it's a letter that is basically trying to protect the vote of the students at prairie view. it is a letter from local democrats, including the field director's candidate, mr. siegl, and it demands that since these students registered to vote using the address the county gave them and told them to put on their forms, the county shouldn't now block these kids from voting or try to send them somewhere else, or field them out to some other precinct they don't know where it is or make them fill out additional documentation like they've done something wrong. what these kids d...

Yesterday. field director delivers the letter to a clerk at the courthouse. field director then apparently snaps a picture of the fact that he has delivered the letter to the clerk at the courthouse to verify that the letter has been delivered. then they arrested him. they asked him what party the candidate was whose campaign he worked for. and then they arrested him. and, yes, it is as weird as it sounds. this is from the houston chronicles write up of what happened here. quote, a field director for democratic congressional candidate mike seeing he will was arrested at the waller county court...