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This meant protecting black americans seeking to exercise their right to vote from acts and threats of violence by white supremacists. the framers of the civil war amendments recognized that access to the ballot is a fundamental aspect of citizenship and self-government. the voting rights act of 1965 sought to make the promise of those amendments real, to do so it gave the justice department valuable tools with which to protect the right to vote. in recent years, however, the protection of the voting rights act have been drastically weakened. the supreme court's 2013 decision in the shelby cou...

Senators, call their senators and expressly say we need voting rights. never before in my lifetime have we had redistricting done without the full protections of the voting rights act of 1965. the john robert lewis voting rights act would fully restore the enforceability, which is preclearance for the most egregious, not every state, but the most egregious state actors. and if we've seen anything, alex, since shelby versus holder decision in 2013, in states after states especially after the 2020 presidential election have tried to increase a number of very suppressive voting rights in their st...

Senator manchin, is now the lead senator of now has all 50 senators on board. it has two bills that i introduced, that would protect election voters from harassment and intimidation. it would also limit arbitrary removal of local election officials, which is what you just described. of course, we also have the john lewis voting rights advancement act that if it were pass would repair the voting rights act. which would get us back into preclearance, to folks are wondering what that is, all these changes that you are seeing that are going through and that might be in place for this election woul...

President pence. let me ask you about georgia. there is going to be a legal challenge. the hill is noting a federal judge did -- rejected a request to dismiss a legal challenge to that law filed this spring by the naacp and other groups that argue the state's new votes limits threatening to illegally suppress the vote of minority groups. republicans are moving right along ahead, right ahead with destroying democracy. what is being done on the ground to turn that back? >> yeah, well, joy, i want to first start by just noting that these are the kinds of moves that would have been subject to prec...

America that it is a democratic president. democratic house. and then of course, a democratic senate. and that is where we have our most difficult times. we in the house have passed enormous important legislation. and you asked the question why it is different than a decade ago. my good friend, tom perez has the voting rights act. he had section five, ten years ago. it was abolished by the john roberts court. who miscued and misinterpreted a little bit of success. and suggested that section five preclearance was not needed, of course, the justice that was their, justice kings bergh said that i...