Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130303:12:20:00
Strongest pushbacks, with the lawyer representing shelby county, sotomayor directly challenges the racial entitlement comment. >> do you think that the right to vote is a racial entitlement in section 5? >> no. the 15th amendment protects the right of all to vote. >> i asked a different question. do you think section 5 was voted for because it was a racial entitlement. >> well, congress -- >> you think there was no basis. >> congress was reacting in 1964 to a problem of race incrimination, which it thought was prevalent in certain jurisdictions, so to that extent, yes, it was intended to prote...
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