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I know thatg advocate for it. it now has passed, it's been signed and you're getting sued. it will be your job as attorney general to defend it before the supreme court but it's not something new to you. >> i have been involved as the attorney general in texas to defend life in court and that's what i will be doing with this new law. i took the lead among state attorneys general in defending the partial birth abortion ban and we won at the united states supreme court. i took the lead as the state attorney general in defending the parental notification law and we won both in the united states s...

Defending life in courts and that's what i will be doing in regards to this new texas law. as a reminder, i took the lead among state attorneys general in defending the partial birth abortion ban and we won at the united states supreme court. i took the lead in defendinging the parental notification law and we won in the united states supreme court and in texas. i've taken the lead in defending a texas law the sonogram law, and we defended that and we won. now, we have this new law passed out of the state of texas that is going to, the governor both better protect the health care of women who ...

Locked into a madmen time warp. >> again, the country that elected a black president twice did it under section 5 of the voting rights act. what they refuse to give recognition to -- >> section 5 remains. >> section 5 remains. >> section 5 was attacked with no map which means it's not intact. >> section 5 though still allows the federal government, mike, to enforce the law. the voting rights act. it's just you're not saying that these nine states that are targeted because they were run by bigots in 1965 are still run by bigots in 2013. >> the section 5 element is like saying section 5 is the n...

It. i want to ask you, do you want in perpetuity for these states to be treated unequal. >> no, i have no problem with a new map as long as you kept what was there in place to protect people while you went through trying to find a new map because what you just said is the problem. this congress is not inclined to come with a new map. so what you've really done is you've killed precleerps and that is something that is terrible. >> i think the strongest part of joe's argument is you've got some states who are currently treated under law before this decision differently. the presumption is that t...

Constitutionally suspect and they followed through on it yesterday. so that's exactly what they said they were going to do. here was their constitutional analysis. they say that the voting rights act turns the normal relationship between the federal government and the says the upside down. the constitution gives the states the authority to conduct elections. the voting rights act said, any change to the covered states want to make is suspect from the beginning and the federal government has to look and make sure it's not designed to suppress the minority vote. they said that was okay. that wou...