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[ male announcer ] choose your side at oreo.com. iconic members of the civil rights community joining vice president joe biden on the edmund pettis bridge in selma, alabama just moments ago. they are there to commemorate the 1965 civil rights march from selma to montgomery. i want to bring back the brain trust now. ari, bob, alice. listen to who vice president joe biden said earlier today there in sell map. take a listen. >> section v of the voting rights act in 1965, okay. i even got -- i got credit or blamed for getting strom thurmond to vote for its reauthorization in the '70s. strom thur...

Special privilege from the courts when we're talking about changes in elections. times change and i think it's a veiled issue for the justices to raise. but i also want to point out in your interview earlier with the reverend martin luther king's daughter earlier, the ceremony today is so important to not only remember how far we've come but, as she said so eloquently, make sure we don't go back to where we came from. >> i would add to what alice said. hear a lot about the rhetoric and heard a lot about singling states. all states, all 50, are singled out in another section of the voting right...

Goes to the places where we've had the most innovation of discrimination, that's what justice sotomayor said, the fact that you need to clear it in advance, because when you don't the people down there keep finding all these different ways to use race, to discriminate, to keep people from moving from moving polling places to voter i.d., that's why it's pre-clearance, you're discriminating based on race, something we've always said is terrible and the fact that the court wants to get in there and overrule that i think potentially is very concerned. selma or not, anniversary or not. >> alice, i ...

About the continued pervasive racial discrimination that's going on in the covered jurisdictions about the flexibility of the coverage formula and the mechanism for deciding who's covered. and about how there are ways to address voting discrimination outside of the covered jurisdictions. i think the -- >> let's keep this simple. you're a lawyer. you're lawyering me here. >> i'm sorry. >> the bottom line is if you're black out there and you want to vote and you live in pennsylvania and they've been screwing around with voter i.d. cards or you live in florida and they're screwing around getting ...

Under section v. they have to perhaps file a lawsuit, get a lawyer, wait years and years. by that time, they will have been disenfranchised for a number of elections. it's important that everything is moot because section v gave them a tool. >> we have so much more to discuss on this issue. if you could hang with us, after the break, we are going to talk about president obama who voiced his opinion. a bipartisan panel to work on improving the electoral process, plus, the future of section v in congress. that's next on "now." do we have a mower? no. a trimmer? no. we got nothing. we just bought...