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University to run for city council. the naacp has staged what they call moral monday rallies to protest the law which requires a photo i.d. and restricts early voting as well as same-day registration. i want to bring in the president of the north carolina naacp william barber, good morning. >> good morning, chris, how are you? >> i'm well. let me get your reaction, first of all, where republicans are accused of trying to suppress student voters. >> well, it's political hysteria. they are scared to death of the people voting. and we're going to fight back against all they're attempting to do. i...

Point in american history, 50 years after the important march on washington, to somehow find what i think are arguments to say that section iv and v are unconstitutional. if a state or jurisdiction feels it has no history of discrimination, it can bail out as have some 70 plus jurisdictions over the past several years. since 1965, the justice department has 1,000 objections. importantly, we saw south carolina, we saw texas we saw states covered by the voting rights act try to take the voting rights of the people of those states back to the dark ages. it would be tragic if the supreme court str...

That is a politically activist, has a politically activist base of maybe three, maybe four, maybe five justices who somehow, as they did in, i think the important case of citizens united, want to alter the political landscape in a tragic way. this would be a tragedy for the nation were they to eliminate section v and section iv. i predict it would be this supreme court if it were to do that would go down in history like the supreme court in plecy. the supreme court that reversed the gains made after the civil war. this case has broad ramifications. let me pose this. in those case that is you c...

12 minutes for the white voter, 20 minutes for the african-american. in shelby county, they redrew they are lines toout montgomery. they canceled elections in 2001. it was the voting rights act that forced the election to take place, they elected their first black mayor. where is the argument that race is no longer an issue in certain parts of the south? >> i hope that the members of the supreme court hear and read the evidence that you just cited. there is no question that section iv and v in the voting rikts is needed more than ever. if one makes the argue there are problems in other states,...

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