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Them behind them. i don't think sh shlacking is an appropriate term. you have a court that could dismantle a landmark civil rights case in advance of taking up the issue of gay marriage which is not good for the republicans either. >> it's not go to see section v struck down. it resin forces the idea they are not a party of everybody. they are the party for an exclusive few. if you listen to governor jindal, he says expand this thing, not restrict it and limit other people. i want to comment about the folks who say how long is long enough? it's important to remember that the voting rights act ...

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...

If the supreme court says okay, the preclearance is fine in theory, but we are going to throw out the coverage map and send it back to congress, the question is, would congress have the political will to redraw the maps and do what it did in 1965 all over again and sit-down and say okay, let's look at which states are doing a good job and which states are doing a bad job. i can't answer that question. >> let me ask you this question. representative john lewis, who has been long involved in the civil rights movement. he points out the 16 jurisdictions affected by section v rep zen 25% of the na...

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