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Hey, we wanna welcome everyone to the father daughter dance. look at this dad, he's got some moves! money you can use on out-of-pocket medical expenses. he's ok, yeah! unitedhealthcare we have breaking news out of the supreme court. i want to take you directly to nbc's pete williams at the supreme court. pete, what happened? >> well, the supreme court has just turned down the state of north carolina, which had asked the court to take up an appeal of a ruling from the lower courts that put a hold on one of the strictest new voter restriction laws in the state. this is the -- one of the toughe...

Department of justice. the doj sided with the naacp in a lawsuit filed just last week alleging that election officials in some counties were suppressing the minority vote. a federal judge also issued an injunction to stop officials from cancelling voter registrations there. yesterday, the state's naacp called north carolina, quote, the epicenter for voter suppression. the head of the north carolina chapter of the naacp, reverend barber who spoke at the dnc which seems so long ago. thank you so much for joining us. >> the episeyou're welcome. >> how do you understand what's happening there? >> ...

Far eclipses all of the restrictive voting laws that have come before it. the bill passed in north carolina on thursday night and is what my guest, ari berman, calls the country's worst voter suppression law. the bill started off badly enough, a strict voter i.d. measure that could leave 318,000 north carolinians without the right to -- or without the capacity to vote. but then, it ballooned into a, yes, my friends, 57-page voter suppression super bill. as republicans tacked on dozens of amendments to gut voting rights in the state, including the end of same-day voter registration, cutting bac...

Four days of early voting and no sites on sundays and she said with all the opportunities to vote by mail early in person monday, saturday and on election day there is no justification for requiring election workers to work on sunday. both officials deny any effort to suppression voting but what conclusion did you draw? who is penalized when polls are closed on sundays? >> when i spoke with civil rights groups in the state, they appointed to the fact that this summer, a circuit court struck down north carolina's voting law. this law required photo vote are id photo id from voters and also elim...