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>> and professor joyner, i should add you're also an naacp long-time civil rights attorney yourself. is there a lot of hopefulness on the side of those who oppose this law that this judge will issue an injunction? and if he doesn't, what is the plan b? >> well, in the first place, we feel that we presented a compelling case. we had evidence presented from legislators who were involved in the process and testified that this was an irregular proceeding. it was a hurried and hectic one in which democratic legislators did not have the opportunity to have any meaningful input. we had activists from...

Getting people to the polls, getting them registered and engaging them to participate. so we think that we have, we presented a held of a case for the judge and at the end of the date that we will probably get a preliminary injunction. >> professor joynor, hold one moment, so ari, help my viewers to remember why this has to be in court at all. because this has everything to do with the supreme dourt of the united states -- court of the united states in their preent decision. >> that was the context was that when the supreme court e vis rated the voting rights act, it meant that north carolina ...

Voting changes, then the federal government afterwards can sue that state because of the discriminatory effect of those changes. and the big test of that surviving remnant of the voting rights act, the big test of whether or not the voting rights act at least in that small way can still work, whether it can be used to stop a state from restricting voting in ways that are discriminatory, that test is happening right now. this week in north carolina. because the federal government and a host of civil rights agencies are suing the state of north carolina over what it has done to voting rights in ...

Minority voter influence in today's elections? the president and director council of the naacp legal defense and egts found joins us as well as zach roth. i'm going to start at the table with you, zach. you wrote, because today is actually the one-year anniversary of the shelby v. holder decision that essentially gutted the voting rights act by declaring section four unconstitutional and therefore basically making, as you call it, a zombie out of section five. you say shelby's most direct impact was felt in the southern states that were suddenly freed from oversight in their voting changes. al...

The civil rights act under president johnson and at the lbj library the president and first lady were there. the former president speaking as well. the president, congressman edwards, was strong on this point on efforts to restrict voting. here is what he said. >> vote is not a democratic issue or a republican issue. it's an issue of citizenship. whats mak it's what makes our democracy strong. but it's a fact this recent effort to restrict the vote has not been led by both parties. it's been led by the republican party. >> pretty tough charge, backed up "washington post" in the last 15 months ...