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They would have to be cleared by the justice department in any changes they had to their voting practices. if section five of the voting rights act is struck down, then that preclearance process would go away, and, you know, there's some parts of the country where, obviously, folks have been trying to make it harder for people to vote. >> well, there are nine states covered by section five of the voting rights act. there they are. mostly southern which the president talking about. the states in yellow. it's also affected some counties in these additional states in green. you can see that for a...

That preclearance process would go away, and, you know, there's some parts of the country where, obviously, folks have been trying to make it harder for people to vote. >> well, there are nine states covered by section five of the voting rights act. there they are. mostly southern which the president talking about. the states in yellow. it's also affected some counties in these additional states in green. you can see that for a total of 16 states. in the 2012 election, section five protections played a crucial role in preventing minority voters from being disenfranchised in texas and in florid...

Country, those areas that had a history of preventing african-americans or ma tee knows or other ethnic groups from voting, they would have to be cleared by the justice department in any changes they had to their voting practices. if section five of the voting rights act is struck down, then that preclearance process would go away, and, you know, there's some parts of the country where, obviously, folks have been trying to make it harder for people to vote. >> well, there are nine states covered by section five of the voting rights act. there they are. mostly southern which the president talki...

Or go about changing voting rules without going to the department of justice first and saying, is this okay? because the history of these jurisdictions is using those mechanisms explicitly to disenfranchise people. there's a long history of that. that's what's on the table, right? >> yes. >> state of alabama brought a challenge to section five saying this is ridiculous. times are changed. stop it. the state of texas went around the preclearance process. we are redistricting the way we want. it came before a panel in the federal district of columbia. it was struck down, 2-1. so, the court has n...

April either. the new census gave texas four new seats in the u.s. house going from 32 to 36 seats. they are what's called the cover state under the voting rights act because of the history of racial discrimination. they have to get permission from a court in washington before they can use the new map. they don't have the permission yet. back in texas, lawsuit has been filed by many civil rights groups against this plan. in that lawsuit, a district court re-drew the districts. that's what the supreme court is deciding now whether the court acted properly. i don't think anyone knows what the co...