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Adjustments like making election day a federal holiday, would ban partisan gerrymandering, require vote i.d., and allow for at least 15 days of early voting. and that was something that actually got the stamp of approval and endorsement from stacey abrams who had been a leading voice in this battle. so we did see at least that side of the party get behind this. but this procedural vote and motion that's going to take place on tuesday is expected to fail because republicans have already signaled that they're going to sink the measure. so where it goes from here is still unclear. but it's going ...

Challenge e ed things like vote i.d. laws and now it looks like the justice department will switch sides. we have an attorney general in jeff sessions that has a history of wrongfully prosecuting civil rights workers for voter fraud who chired the gutting of the voting rights act. when jeff sessions did 3 million to 5 million people voted illegally, he said i don't know how many people. so he is voting the door. jeff sessions alone is opening the door to more voter suppression. >> and i was going to say, you know have alexander acosta has a history of suppressing the right to vote. >> so al le...

Pennsylvania where -- these things into effect in north carolina if this goes into effect, it raises all sorts of other issues. as we say vote i.d. is one of a number of issues where there is a tea partization of north carolina going on. i want to talk about, you know, how democrats are responding to that and if there are lessons from north carolina that could be applied.

>>guest: that is correct, a three-judge panel and you will expect a judgment quickly. >>neil: all right, for states like texas that may have had prior discrimination issues they have to go to the front of the behind with a question mark because if you have had a history the federal government is watching you center closely. does that put texas at a disadvantage? >>guest: well, certainly, and particularly what puts them at a disadvantage are the people that this more holder justice department, and in 2005 the justice department approved a law like this in georgia. but the people working on that...