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Garland justice department is doing its best with the tools it has, like section 2 of the voting rights act, but it does feel like they're trying to slay a dragon using foam swords, because they really do need legislation and there are a million issues, nicole. i understand that the biden administration has to deal with right now, but the voting rights discourse is more than just, like, some other concern that should be thrown on the pile. it's an existential issue and the administration's got to view it as such. and so if you can't break the filibuster for this, i'm just not sure what you bre...
Sophisticated lawsuit, nicole. it kind of represents the justice department at its best when using its career lawyers to really go into detail about what this texas law does and then go into detail about the united states code. so, it challenges things like, in texas, the new law prohibits, you know, if someone has minor clerical errors, for example, in their vote, it basically throws that vote out, and what the justice department says is, well, there's actually this fairly obscure law from 1964, section 10101 which prohibits that kind of thing and ordinarily the justice department uses broad ...
Facilitates giving people assistance in the -- in voting if they're disabled or something like that. and this texas law obviously, as you were saying before, actually criminalizes some of that assistance. and so it's a real flat violation of democratic principles and the lawsuit is done incredibly well. >> how long will it take? >> it could take a long time. voting rights cases take a long time, and this is why the provision that is on the floor of the congress right now to restore section 5 of the voting rights act is so important. because what section 5 says is that you can't make changes to...
Way, there are two other volumes that interpret sections in the u.s. attorneys manual. it is called the criminal resources manual. one of the goals the justice department says was to try to trim this thing down. every successive justice department keeps adding stuff to it. the justice department's view was, it's becoming so vague, a lot of these sections, they say. they're nearly stating things that are obvious. constitutional values. that is their explanation for why this section called "need for free press and fair trial" was taken out. what it says is, careful weight must be given in each c...