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It was because they did not pass muster under preclearance. a lot of these lawsuits right now are being challenging the whole notion of section two. can you break that down for our audience. >> yeah, well, it used to be before supreme court case, a few years ago, that maps like this would have to get precleared by the justice department to make sure they didn't run afoul of the voting rights act. after that case, that no longer is the case. so, it's given free reign, basically to the states like texas to engage in discriminatory behavior and throw that to the courts on a case-by-case basis. bu...

The senate, 421-3 in the house. so something has happened to the republican party in which they now consider voting an evil and preclearance, you know, which is designed to facilitate voting, an evil as well. >> the virginia result with republican turnout what it was, with voting rights expanded in the state, you would think in the logical fact-based world it might create some pause, but we don't live in a logical fact-based world. i want to ask you about texas. justice department is involved, obviously, in suing texas over the near total ban on abortion. now they've sued over their voting acc...

Clear and simple solution to all of these problems, and that is federal intervention. >> the federal government stepped in during the civil rights era with the 1965 voting rights act. >> among other things, it prohibited states from denying a person the right to vote based on race or color. yet in 2013 the supreme court up ended a major part of that law. >> it eviscerated one of its key components, which was key clearance. the thing about preclearance is that it's before they could implement a new law dealing with voting or a new policy dealing with voting, it had to be okayed first by the u.s...

Democrats are proposing voting bills broad in scope. many see restating reclearance as the bare minimum to addressing voting rights. one bill is called the lon lewis voting rights act. >> i gave blood on this bridge. >> you gave a lot on blood on this bridge. >> i walked with him across the edmund pettus bridge, where he was beaten almost to death in a march demanding voting rights. >> why is it so important to keep coming back every year? >> it is on us to come back. this is the place that gave us the voting rights act, made it possible for thousands and millions of people to be able to parti...

The federal level without any sort of preclearance whatsoever and they're doing the same thing to section two. they are trying to set up a showdown so they can get section two also watered down or make it to where it really means nothing anymore. so they can do whatever it is they want to do in these things as it relates to voting rights and you're going to see states follow suit in texas as it relates to healthcare. you're going to see them push for more and more restrictive laws and healthcare. around issues dealing with mask mandates and covid-19 for us to try to protect our kids before the...