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Ultimately gutted the preclearance requirement which said that states with a history of racial discrimination in voting had to get preclearance before they made any changes. talk about what the erosion of the voting rights act means for the whole host of laws that we're seeing passed now. >> the supreme court has substantially cut back the major tools in blocking and deterring voting discrimination. it makes it harder for voting activists like vote activists to fight back against the measures that are intended or result in imposing obstacles in the way of minority voters. and these decisions h...

See, we need this restrictive voting thing or that restrictive voting practice and law and the like. the bottom line is today's decision is going to have to catalyze the voting rights bills currently pending on the floor in congress, because what the supreme court decision did, it didn't just remove a tool we have been using to prevent voting discrimination, it also kind of catalyzed and encouraged new rounds of voting discrimination with that language, nicolle, you just read about voting fraud. so the urge and need for a voting rights act is even more important now. >> neil, david, yamiche al...

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A million african-americans incarcerated. red lining, sponsored by the federal government, that specifically indicated don't provide african-americans with the loans they need to move into good housing. the educational discrimination. voting discrimination that warranted the 1965 voting rights act, the 1964 civil rights act. so i think the commission seriously appointed with leaders of this nation can look at the pain of slavery and to analyze its lasting effect and to begin to look at systemic responses, systemic changes. what part of it is an actual, official apology that has never been give...

>> chief justice john roberts summarized his opinion of four telling words, "our country has changed." >> justice ginsburg has filed a dissenting opinion. >> race-based voting discrimination still exists. this court's decision -- >> -- is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet. >> she called out the majority and said this makes zero sense. the entire reason that racial discrimination in voting is not happening is because we have this very important law. >> i was righteously angry right alongside with her. >> her dissent was the introduction for many you...