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Saying he should have had better outreach to the minority voters. what role does mitt romney have in the campaign now, michael? and honestly the way the gop has been going the voting acts, voting rights act, has that moved very quickly? you didn't have a republican leader at the selma march until mccarthy came in at the last minute. if you look at most of the people who have been insured by president obama's health care law, the highest percentage have been latinos when it comes to minorities. so what exactly will the gop do to take romney's words to heart? >> nothing. i mean you know look if ...

>> that was one of the highest moments. we call that speech the we shall overcome speech. he delivered that eight days after bloody sunday march 15th 1965. i remember it very well. i cried. dr. king cried. he remembered the president of the united states saying we shall overcome and he said we will make it from selma to montgomery and the voting acts right will be passed. >> you had a southern president, lyndon johnson and it only took him eight days after bloody sunday to go to congress to a joint session with legislation. you get the feeling that he is dragging his feet in the film. but the ...

Lack of access to the voting booth, lack of jobs, to get over that, help people escape that century of built-in bad behavior and government mismanagement, you needed something like the great society. >> well, what we needed was equal treatment under the law. we needed the civil rights act of 1964. the voting acts right of 1965. those were needed. we got those. the problem is when the government tries to go beyond equal opportunity and ensure equal results. that's when you get into trouble. what i'm arguing is black people must ultimately help themselves. they must develop the habits and attitu...

Just this week, the supreme court decided to take a case challenging the district map for the entire state on the basis that it violates the constitution and the voting rights act. the plaintiffs allege that alabama's latest redistricting scheme stuffs black voters into super majority black districts with the intent of preserving the maximum amount of majority white districts, and thus, diluting black voters' power in the state. the case will go before the same court that gutted the voting acts right last week. it will be a high stakes battle with potentially huge implications for the way redi...

Alabama's latest redistricting scheme stuffs black voters into super majority black districts with the intent of preserving the maximum amount of majority white districts, and thus, diluting black voters' power in the state. the case will go before the same court that gutted the voting acts right last week. it will be a high stakes battle with potentially huge implications for the way redistricting and voting rights act are used in the future. joining me to discuss it is author lawrence tribe. author of uncertain justice, robert's court and the constitution. the robert's court racial jurisprud...