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I am here today to sound an alarm. in 2013 the supreme court's decision in shelby county versus holder suspended the preclearance process, the justice department's single most powerful and effective tool for protecting the right to vote. the department's ability to protect the right to vote has been eroded as a result. for the justice department, restoration of the voting rights act is a matter of great urgency. >> that was assistant attorney general kristen clarke issuing a stark warning on the threat to voting rights yesterday. her plea echos similar calls for action from the country's top d...

Voting rights act in the preclearance notions. states can't do a lot of the shenanigans either on a state regulatory level, on a state legislative level, without preclearance from the department of justice. that means any substantive procedural change to voting procedures on the state local county municipal level would have to be cleared by the department of justice. my mentor and good friend deval patrick of the civil rights former director of the civil rights division of the department of justice firmly let the preclearance process. no kristen clark leads it. if it were restart under section...

Done this. the way they viewed this is that you have row and you have to preserve as much of roe as possible and the state legislatu legislatures. kamala harris came up with a policy that is a voting rights act for choice is abortion rights. the government should sign protections for people's right to access abortions. >> these states, all of them are playing a very dangerous game to overrule row versus wait. kamala harris's proposal which he has cosponsored with me and tammy baldwin and another leader is that there would be this preclearance process by the department of justice. i'm fine with...

They say it's going to be good for the republican party. some are not shy they're referring to those reasons. >> but also in north carolina, there was a pretty naked statement of legislator who said now we don't have to go through the preclearance process. we were going to do a photo i.d. bill. now we're going to do the full bill. now they have the package of the early voting cuts and other things like that. one thing i thought was really important about the president's speech. he was speaking to the administration side. he was speaking to the idea of the fact we need to make sure that our ele...

The national urbanen league. a part of that process of filing the papers later on would be to force texas to obtain federal approval before texas officials change their election law. the process would be under federal oversight for a decade. it is called the so-called preclearance process. the last month, after that supreme court decision, texas immediately moved to enact its new voter i.d. law but holder did not point to that as the reason for his actions. he said that there was another case in which the texas legislature was found to have intentionally discriminated against latino voters in ...