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Oral arguments in 2013 when they ruled against it which took the map out in terms of preclearance. you need that done by legislation. which would make it a process that they could have not done a lot of what they're doing in these states to preclear it. absent that the only thing you can do in the interim is to aggressively go after lawsuits which the attorney general did today and reminiscent of history of robert kennedy wanted to deal with the voting rights act of '65. marshall said you have to hire a lot of lawyers to show that this attorney general was serious he said he's going to give ch...

So. it is the great question and issue of this presidency and this time. >> so charlie sykes, we can obviously put s-1, the for the people act at joe manchin's feet but you can't do that with the john lewis voting rights act that would restore the preclearance restrictions that were struck down. as jen notes correctly, all republicans are standing in the way of s-1 and all but lisa murkowski are opposing the john lewis bill. so what is the responsibility of some of the other republicans who watch what happened on january 6 who are continuing to hear the former president question the results of...

Al sharpton, michael eric dyson and neil. professor, your reaction? >> it is absolutely necessary for the attorney general to use the bully pulpit of his officer for ideas that protect american citizens' right to vote. in 2013 with the rejection of preclearance as the predicate for judicial oversight it is even more necessary for legislators and the department of justice to vigorously pursue democracy and the right to vote for ordinary citizens and the shenanigans, the tricks deployed by republican-led state legislatures throughout the country shows the evil ingenuity of a far right wing that ...

Getting under way. and the democrat leading it, j.k. butterfield, starting off. with intersecting debates on capitol hill about voting rights. the first is over a bill known as hr 1, a sprawling democracy and lee election reform bill that would set a standard of voting rights in all 50 states. that bill has passed the house. it does not have a pulse in the senate. there's a separate debate going on, involving the john lewis advancement act that speaker pelosi says will be ready this fall, it faces an 81 hill climb to get the 60 votes need in the senate. it has the democrats on board and one re...

It is now? >> that won't address state legislative bodies that enacted regressive laws like in georgia. you're going to have a lot of voters harmed because of what they've just done in georgia and in several other states. so we have to address the harm that has been implemented in state policy over the last two months as well as address issues around redistricting, how we make sure we get lines that are not so heavy polarized that we won't recognize congress in the next session. and we must also put in place measures to prevent jurisdictions from trying to suppress votes moving forward. >> i'm...