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Fight georgia.com to find out more about what we're dogs. >> very quickly, i think a lot of people get the sense is there a voting rights act anymore? when you look at what happened in georgia, it's hard to believe there is any voting rights act? >> oh, there is. we continue to litigate under that. we won a case challenging judicial elections in louisiana. you'll remember the north carolina omnibus voter suppression law that was won in the fourth circuit. we're still actively using that. it's the preclearance provision, the provision that allowed us to get out ahead of some of the practices. y...

Restore the voting rights preclearance protections and so i think it's really important we learn the lessons of the past and we mobilize folks to really demand that congress act on restoring the voting rights act. >> so stick with us representative sewell but i love that representative sewell put this in a positive context. talk about the beholder was a positive challenge issued by the supreme court to the u.s. congress? >> a devastating decision. we had the supreme court upholding the voting rights act and what we're talking about is a particular provision called the preclearance provision th...

Triggers that would cover states. that is, states that engage in certain kinds of conduct or voting changes that we know tend to have a discriminatory result. and then there are many people who are disturbed about the fact that it really limits the ability to use voter id challenges as part of the basis upon which you can have a jurisdiction covered under the preclearance provision. >> as it moves forward, do you think that it will continue to have bipartisan support? >> yeah, i'm actually really quite encouraged. we began with four republican congresspeople, two of them from the south, spence...

We thought it was a powerful statement. and a really important indication to the country that this administration was committed to enforcing the right to vote for all. now, what attorney general holder did last week was to send a powerful signal, not just to texas, but to the nation that other aspects of the voting rights act not damaged by the shelby county decision will be used to help enforce the law. last week, he used section 3 of the act which helped bring in states that might otherwise not have been covered under a preclearance provision, but he also has section two of the act which is ...

Shelby county decision will be used to help enforce the law. last week, he used section 3 of the act which helped bring in states that might otherwise not have been covered under a preclearance provision, but he also has section two of the act which is nationwide in its coverage and allows us to go after discriminatory actors after the act. >> here's the republican argument. in some cases republicans resort to made up voter fraud scandal to help justify the restrictions. the washington post fact checker over the weekend debunked the zombie voters in south carolina. in 201, the attorney general...