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That it was okay. that is what happened at the shelby county case. so that gutted section five of that. preclearance. and then more recently, the supreme court looked at what was remaining for doj section two. and you know, doj can still sue over this law. but you can only win if you prove a state legislature in acted one of these laws with an intent to discriminate. and absent prove that intent was the reason for this new restriction or this new role of that vote to go into place. you are not entitled to keep it from going into effect. so very slim pickings for doj. that is why it's so import...

#. >> good morning mika and joe. we lost the status quo from 1965 to 2013. basically, what the supreme court's decision did is really end what was called preclearance. it's really the safe guard of the vra, if states try to change voter identification loss or states try to change early voting polling access, they had to clear that, preclear that with the justice department. and for states like, texas is my adopted hometown, states like texas for example as soon as shelby decision was passed, they passed a flourish of voter identification and other legislation that really

How important it is and we need to stop those laws before they're enacted. preclearance is very important, and we'll continue to fight for it. >> the president seems to be taking on a new tone. republicans are frequently -- he's asking what they are for. that's what he's saying about republicans. he's also saying they were not as obstructive i should say back in the obama era. mitch mcconnell responding to that tonight. listen. >> the reason we've not been speaking recently this year is because he adopted the bernie sanders prescription for america. if the president wants to reinvent himself a...

Years since he served as a young assistant in the regan administration and fought elements of the bipartisan reauthorization of the voting rights act of 1962 one of the most consistent lines in his jurisprudence as chief justice is weakening democracy protections and undermining federal voting rights law and essentially, what he has done is put a dare down in front of the congress and, you know, said i am -- we are going to knock down the preclearance, which really was the beginning of the enormous push back we're seeing on voting rights and you have the responsibility of building a majority t...

The john lewis voting rights act were to deal with decisions handed down by the supreme court particularly around preclearance in some of those states that have historically had problems with black voters. and ensuring the right to vote. and the other changes were things like ensuring, you know, mail-in ballots were valid and requirements for drop boxes to be present and making the election day a holiday. i mean, really pretty simple things. and they couldn't get it done. i think it is going to hurt them morally because it is the moral thing to do but i think it also hurts politically because ...