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Authority over states with a deep history of racial discrimination. so what is the part that the department of justice is invoking now in order to try to put texas back under extra scrutiny? >> there's a provision in the voting rights act, section 3-c, which provides where jurisdictions have intentionally discriminated in one aspect, particularly in voting, those jurisdictions can be subject to submitting their voting changes for preclearance or preapproval to the department of justice or to a three-judge federal court. today the attorney general filed papers in federal court in texas asking t...

Rights act, itself, the part the supreme court invalidated was a part that gave the department of justice or the federal government, rather, a kind of authority over states with a deep history of racial discrimination. so what is the part that the department of justice is invoking now in order to try to put texas back under extra scrutiny? >> there's a provision in the voting rights act, section 3-c, which provides where jurisdictions have intentionally discriminated in one aspect, particularly in voting, those jurisdictions can be subject to submitting their voting changes for preclearance or...

Justice or the federal government, rather, a kind of authority over states with a deep history of racial discrimination. so what is the part that the department of justice is invoking now in order to try to put texas back under extra scrutiny? >> there's a provision in the voting rights act, section 3-c, which provides where jurisdictions have intentionally discriminated in one aspect, particularly in voting, those jurisdictions can be subject to submitting their voting changes for preclearance or preapproval to the department of justice or to a three-judge federal court. today the attorney ge...

Act. there's section two, a provision that allows for private litigants and for the department of justice to pursue discriminatory changes to methods of elections, and the hopes of other discriminatory voting measures as a provision that allows for jurisdictions that have intensely discriminated to be bailed in to coverage, where they have to submit their voting changes for approval. but i like the point that congressman lewis made about how the supreme court's devastating, and really, disgraceful decision broke his heart. and to ari's point, i think there's a moment now where congress can rec...

Currently recognize their unions. and the court essentially legalized same-sex marriage in california by punting honest decision and restoring the original ruling of a trial judge that overturned proposition 8. on the other hand, there is disappointment and uncertainty for the future of democracy after the court gutted a signature piece of legislation that has secured the right to vote for millions of americans for nearly 50 years. the court's invalidation of section 4 of the voting rights act removed the teeth from section 5, the provision that had required pre-clearance of voting changes in ...