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Court gutted, calling it antiquated, out of date, and basically unnecessary in today's world. rachel's been reporting on attorney general garland's various tests at doj and the challenges he faces. this is surely one of them. and he's out swinging the bat for restoring the full law and its approach, righting of the voting rights act's preclearance provision were still operative many republican voter suppression laws wouldn't have been allowed in the first place, that's the key preclearance issue i mentioned. if it feels like people are always playing kind of a legal catch-up with these restric...

In today's world. rachel has been reporting on attorney general garland's various tests at the age, and challenges he faces. this is surely one of them. and he is out swinging the bat for restoring the full law and its approach writing voting rights act preclearance provision were still operative, many republican voter suppression laws would have been allowed in the first place. that's that key preclearance issue i mentioned. now, if it feels like people are always playing kind of a legal catch up with these restrictions all over the place, that's not an accident. that is because the supreme c...

Correct what the supreme court said was wrong with the 1965 voting rights act. now, here is where the rub comes because, in order to reauthorize the john lewis act or h.r.4, as we called it, you have to have a record developed for why you're targeting these specific states. now, before, it was only around six states. what we did the last time out was expand it to around nine to 11 states. but, you know, if you make the preclearance section of the john lewis act apply to all 50 states, there will be no need to have this record developed. and so, i have been asking the congress. the senate can j...

Can tell you they can pare it down only to a point that it does not diminish the issue of federal preclearance and some of the issues around gerrymandering. those things are nonnegotiable. there may be some other things in the bill that can be negotiableble. that's the nature of the legislative process. we stand strong and clear. we also stand strong and clear about the filibuster. i know that carly is not favor of it. i think either you eliminate it or reform it. no process should be more important than the problem. the problem of voting is a bread and butter fundamental freedom issue. if the...

This. if your meetings in washington here, how prominent is the discussion -- horror how from prominent is talk of the filibuster, doing away with it, reforming it, carving out reform so that voting rights don't have to -- filibuster. how big is filibuster? >> i think we need to get to the substance of the measures? what are they going to do? are they going to amend the for the people act? we need a preclearance revision with a five-year look back, and whether it's base on historical data of a state, and texas who has a history of discrimination against people of color, or do we look at the st...