Live Breaking News & Updates on The Last Supreme Court Case Interpreting Voting Rights Act

Stay updated with breaking news from The last supreme court case interpreting voting rights act. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130302:14:36:00

Paying the worker s wage. the vast majority of the wage is being paid by the tips. in other cultures, the tips are like that? right? yeah. exactly in that in seven states in the united states, including california, oregon, washington, montana, nevada, these are states that are doing really well. california has the largest restaurant industry in the country. and there s no difference between the minimum wage for tipped workers and not tipped workers. the tip is on top of that base wage. to ensure proper service if that were the case, wouldn t you tip before? that s great. here s my question, though, when we talk about service, i mean, what i think is so fascinating with this quote to be servile. as we move towards the service economy, right. when we think of the hardship of labor in the 19th century. we think about blast furnaces. ....

Restaurant Industry , Base Wage , The Last Supreme Court Case Interpreting Voting Rights Act , Wouldn T , Service Economy , Blast Furnaces , 19th Century ,

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130302:14:16:00

I worked as a waiter, and i loved waiting tables and i had family in the industry. it seems to me, it just is different than other industries, right? what are the sort of main ways that s the case? well, right now, the industry has over 10 million workers. 1 in 10 americans actually works in the industry. one of the main ways it s different, it s actually one of the top two largest industries in the country. unfortunately, also happens to be the employer of 7 of the 10 lowest paying jobs in america. and the two absent lowest paying jobs in america. you ve got the largest portion of america basically prolife indicating the jobs with the least benefits. the least amount of paid sick days. so workers in this industry don t have a way to get paid while sick. which means two-thirds report cooking and preparing foods while they re ill. another thing that makes a difference, as tom will tell you, it s a low-frost busines l. ....

The Last Supreme Court Case Interpreting Voting Rights Act , Industry Don T , 10 Million , Tom Colicchio ,

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130302:13:20:00

They can t stand up to the constituents and they look beyond what they actually do when is reauthorize the statute for the fourth time. debo, is there a legitimate i guess we re all sitting here, we don t have anyone on the other side of this issue. i have a hard time seeing the other side. i mean, what is the interest on the other side of this case? it seems to me that you have the moral force of protecting people from systematic inclusion, discrimination on one side. and on the other side, the best you can come up with is like the sovereign dignity of alabama? right, i think there were two issues at play. both were in evidence in the court the other day. those in some way, although they deny it, are contesting the original premise of the voting rights act. that is a very good point. that is to say, whether congress actually has the power to make these distinction it s and treat a problem where it finds it being most corrosive to ....

Debo Adegbile , The Last Supreme Court Case Interpreting Voting Rights Act , The Other Side , Voting Rights Act ,

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130302:13:38:00

To maybe about perpetuity. i think the assumption that seems to frame all of this for the moderate swing or the court like o connor before and kennedy now, there s not some horizon to which we re marching that somehow that invalidates. it seems that things that are good that can prevent bad things from happening as long as to protect them from bad things as long as there are bad things happening. one of the worst things she could have done is put that number out there. 25 years. 25 years, because people are counting down. unfortunately in this case, you have justice roberts who says, no, actually, it s less than 25 because we have a black man in the white house. it s a preposterous thing to litigate. debo adegbile who just argued in ....

Justiceo Connor , The Last Supreme Court Case Interpreting Voting Rights Act , White House , Justice Roberts , Debo Adegbile , Black Man ,

Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130302:13:30:00

Some states differently than other states. the sovereign dignity of alabama and news flash to the justice, the very process of which it was adopted, voting rights histories were treated differently. required to ratify the 14th amendment. required to have public schools, even though other jurisdictions didn t have to have public schools. were required to give blacks the vote before other places actually were obliged to do so. right. that s baked into that s part of the dna of what this is. this racial entitlements language. this is first of all, gop talking points. but the important part is the voting rights act, that s not about an entitlement. right. it s not like a it s also not like the kind of remedy we would see in an employment case or affirmative actions case. section 5 stops discrimination before it happens. i can tell you under section ....

Voting Rights Histories , News Flash , 14th Amendment , Voting Rights Act , Talking Points , The Last Supreme Court Case Interpreting Voting Rights Act , Employment Case ,