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Primaries. if you just look at this map, chris, you can see the blatant gerrymandering of it. it's an effort to -- gerrymandering is sometimes called packing and cracking, where you either shove all the minorities in one district, where you rank them up so you can get the power. and they have all been shut into one district with two claws reaching way out to hit birmingham and montgomery, alabama, because their majority black cities. in doing, so they have clustered all of the black folks to reduce the voting power of black voters in alabama. it's interesting because justice roberts, chief jus...

Time and it seems to be stalling out and we think that congress can do a lot of things, but we have to depend upon the justice department to enforce the law, and so no matter what we may have passed, we just saw what happened in alabama when the supreme court did not support what the judges did when they said, they found it to be unfair and they said well, it may be unfair, but you can go ahead and have the elections anyway. this is an attack on section 2 of the voting rights act. we've already had section 4, the preclearance thrown out in the case and section 2 was there, and i remember senat...

Law ruling that it unconstitutionally targets black vote voters. in a scathing opinion u.s. district judge mark walker writes the restrictions on drop boxes and voter applications were enacted, quote, with the intent to target black voters because of their propensity to favor democratic candidates. >> the judge put florida under preclearance, that requires certain states to seek the okay of a federal judge or the justice department when making changes to its election rules. chris rock spoke last night for the first time about that will smith slap at the oscars. we'll tell you what he had to ...

A 1967 interview, some of the old optimism was a little superficial. and now, it must be tempered with a solid realism. and i think that the realistic factors that we still have a long, long way to go. joining me now, congressman colin allred, democrat of texas, was also a civil rights attorney. congressman, always great to see. you love your reaction to judge walker's ruling. >> yeah, well, i think is the young people, say judge walker understood the assignment. he understood what was at risk here, and he called out other judges, he called out the supreme court. he called out the state of flo...

Luther king junior who said in a 1967 interview, some of the old optimism was a little superficial. and now, it must be tempered with a solid realism. and i think that the realistic factors that we still have a long, long way to go. joining me now, congressman colin allred, democrat of texas, was also a civil rights attorney. congressman, always great to see. you love your reaction to judge walker's ruling. >> yeah, well, i think is the young people, say judge walker understood the assignment. he understood what was at risk here, and he called out other judges, he called out the supreme court....