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Question about the supreme court, just said that federal courts can't stop partisan with -- but state courts still have some power here. without this preclearance provision, what facts stops are there for partisan gerrymandering on the state level? how can states prevent this from happening? >> well you know, in some state supreme courts they have taken strong action against the partisan gerrymandering. state high courts in north carolina, and pennsylvania. struck down partisan. -- what regroom apps to make the much fair we, but the thing is those courts were controlled by liberals in texas th...

Had the shelby decision, which really gutted the preclearance provision. it allowed states that had a history of voter discrimination to now be able to institute very restrictive voter i.d. laws, anti-voter laws in my opinion. and so i think that we saw in this past election, over 40 million americans don't believe that we had a fair and accurate election. and so i think that at the heart of this is that american people do not trust their electoral system. i think that john lewis' bill, the john robert lewis voting rights advancement act, hr-4 and soon to be introduced hr-1 will do just that, ...

Bipartisanship. keep in mind, today, ag garland made the announcement about buttressing the section to try to address many of these concerns. >> as you know, garland is very limited in what he can do. because the john roberts court, in 2013, tore out the heart of the voting rights act. the preclearance provision. all he can use is what's known as section 2. and the supreme court may be about to weaken that, too. the best response democrats have, really the only lever they have to push back against what's going on in the states is federal legislation. setting a federal-minimum standard of votin...

In 1961, the attorney general called into his office the attorney general for civil rights, burke marshall, and marshall's first assistant, john dior. at that time before the 1960s act, the only way to guarantee the right of black americans to vote was to bring individual actions in each county and parish that discriminate against them. kennedy told his assistants that was what he wanted to do. well, general, burke marshall replied, if you want that, we've got to have a lot more lawyers. well, today we are again without a preclearance provision. so, again, the civil rights division is going to...

0 it's great to see you. i'm geoff bennett, and as we come on the air, there is a lot happening on this summer friday. this hour we will see president biden and the first lady at the g7 summit in the u.k. they're about to have a gathering of world leaders and they'll be joined by british royals. we'll have it for you live if it happens. back here at home, there is bombshell news on the trump doj, saying they seized the records of high democratic lawmakers and their families members all hunting down leaks about trump and his contacts with russia. >> obviously deeply suspicious of what the justi...