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Repair the damage that was done to the supreme court by the original voting rights act when the supreme court had that terrible decision in 2013, shelby county vs. holder where they struck a blow against the preclearance provision and really opened up the door to all of the voter suppression that we've seen over the last eight plus years. and so i think it's the combination of the two pieces of legislation, both the freedom to vote act and the john lewis voting rights advancement act that can get us into a better place. it's my hope that the senate will take up this legislation as early as nex...

>> nick, federal voting rights legislation is not passed. what is still on deck? what is working its way through state legislatures and soon to be passed by the end of this year or ahead of the midterms? >> well, in terms of legislation that might restrict access to voting, michigan is currently trying to do a work around of a likely veto by governor whitmer that would have a hole new host of restrictions, things like absentee ballots, looking at election administration, kind of similar to what we've seen in other states but they are now able to go out and try and collect petitions if they can...

For this last cycle because it is about protections of preclearance. they named stuff like after historic figures, right? while republicans are like, the planned plan, that sounds like money. why are democrats so bad at coming up -- they are so busy doing their coup government stuff. we are going to build bridges, roads, we are gonna get that for. you and republicans are saying, the president of the united states moderate, completely normal, nor me, normal joe biden is a marxist! they are saying that with a straight face! and they don't even know how to counter. and i don't have a question, ju...

Ex-president's big lie. the legislation which would require states with recent histories, all of them, of discrimination to get federal reclearance before changing voting rights laws is necessary according to house speaker nancy pelosi. quote, congress has not only an ironclad constitutional mandate but a moral responsibility to enact hr-4. that moral responsibility is apparently not felt amongst republicans. not a single gop lawmaker voted for the bill. just like the vote in march on the for the people act, which we know is currently stalled in the u.s. senate. it looks like the john lewis vo...

Census findings. take shelby county, for example. the small county at the center of alabama has a population of just around 200,000 people. in 2013, it single-handedly gutted the voting rights act of 1965, opening the flood gates for voter suppression for years to come. that year justice roberts supreme court invalidated a key portion of the voting rights act known as preclearance, which essentially made sure states could not pass discriminatory laws that restrict people of color from voting. republicans in shelby county argued the requirements were outdated and too excessive and unnecessary. ...