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Correct what the supreme court said was wrong with the 1965 voting rights act. now, here is where the rub comes because, in order to reauthorize the john lewis act or h.r.4, as we called it, you have to have a record developed for why you're targeting these specific states. now, before, it was only around six states. what we did the last time out was expand it to around nine to 11 states. but, you know, if you make the preclearance section of the john lewis act apply to all 50 states, there will be no need to have this record developed. and so, i have been asking the congress. the senate can j...

Republicans on board. if more republicans are not coming on board and you don't feel that the bill is advancing as quickly as it needs to, does it make sense to continue to leave voter i.d. to the side? >> well, we've made a conscious decision to try to fight that battle another day because every day that goes by with without them taking up the vraa is another day we have no protection for our communities. since the supreme court struck down section five and the preclearance section, 7 million latinos were -- who reside in those states were covered by preclearance. now there's nothing in place...

14 republicans who signed on. still a number of republican who is said no. this is another opportunity for republicans in congress to stand up for what they claim they believe in. and it should be offensive to anyone there is still racial discrimination in voting rights. even chief justice roberts acknowledged that. so, it's unbelievable to me that he then took the action of taking away the most effective tool we've ever had to prevent discrimination in voting. >> it's actually -- maybe we can back up. let's talk about and understand what is left of the voting rights act at this point after th...

The voting right act to name one lawsuits without subjecting the united states to this intrusive federal oversight? >> yeah. you're speaking of section 2 of the voting rights act which applies nationwide. so you can bring a suit, and after the elections are all other, of course, you may win it. the reason that we have section 5 and the formula that comes with it is that what a southern and some other states have tended to do is to make changes in laws shortly before elections. if they keep doing that and you have to go in after the fact, of course, you never catch up. so what the court did was...

Example, that found that their voting place had been changed before an election so that the only way you could get there is by sea or by air. voting after the fact won't deal with that, and yet that was done with this formula in place in alaska. well, it's a challenge to us. could have been worse. section 5, the preclearance section, could have been found unconstitutional. this is a majority that wants to do that but instead it's given us the chance to fix the formula. that's what we should do now. >> sounds like you accept the challenge, congresswoman. congresswoman eleanor holmes. thank you ...