MSNBC The Last Word With Lawrence ODonnell August 7, 2021 02:47:00
Including a 25-year-old john lewis and chase them back over the edmund pettus bridge in selma. the televised violence beamed into the homes of americans later that night helped a nation find its conscience and galvanize support for the passage of the voting rights act five months later. that was the power johnson needed in 1965. now 56 years later that landmark legislation is under assault. two rulings by the supreme court have undermined the ability of the voting rights act to stop the implementation of discriminatory voting laws. according to the brennen center more than 400 bills restrictin...