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Not liz cheney, adam kinzinger, no one on the republican side who voted in favor of this. there is not a single republican who will vote in favor of it. that is a real problem for our democracy because i have made this challenge and offered to republicans over and over again, if they will identify a piece of legislation that they believe is suppressing voters, that is preventing lawful voters from exercising their right to vote, i will join with them in seeking to strike down that law. but there is nothing they want to do to remove barriers to voting. and that's the problem. it's not a both si...
It. that is a real problem for our democracy. i have made this challenge and offer to republicans, over and over again. if they will identify a piece of legislation that they believe is suppressing voters, that is preventing lawful voters from exercising their right to vote, i will join with them in seeking to strike down that law. but, there's nothing that they want to do to remove barriers to voting. that's the problem. it's not a both sides issue, it's a one side issue. >> yeah, the last point i would make, if you want to get rid of marc elias, partisan democratic lawyer, in forcing voter a...
The future justice said the changes would lead to a quote, quota system for those who had elected office. now, it's important to know that roberts and company actually feel back then. in 1982, the real authorization passed with bipartisan support. but once appointed to the court, roberts continued his crusade against voting rights. in 2013, he offered the majority opinion and shelby county, which effectively ended the preclearance process, guarding a major part of the voting rights act. last time roberts joined his conservative colleagues holding arizona's voting restrictions. so how do the co...
The court struck that down. only certain practices instead of all election laws will have to be precleared with the federal government. among those practices are voter i.d. laws. and arguably if a voter i.d. law is not designed to minimize the political power of minorities, then it is administratively easy for that law to be precleared. we focus so much attention on the bad actors and their efforts to try to put discriminatory law into place that it seems like this is overly burdensome. most jurisdictions will pass this preclearance process completely fine. >> franita tolson, we appreciate you...