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Tell kat, to call carla, to confirm katrina is still coming. olly. it's considered one of the most important pieces of civil rights legislation ever passed. but by 5-4 the u.s. supreme court today took the teeth out of a law enacted nearly 50 years ago. >> the voting rights act has policed voter discrimination but today's decision effectively puts it on hold. >> 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 -- >> -- ...

So when you put that together, when you put together john bush, when you put in thomas farrar, nominated to a seat on the eastern district of north carolina, someone who has been the lawyer defending the north korea voter suppression law, and who was the mentee of jesse helms and defended the jesse helms campaign that was accused by the department of justice of intimidating black voters. someone who has an own broken career of defending voting discrimination. and you put that together then with the other nominee who is lack the basic experience that we would expect of someone who sits on the b...

Polling as a statistical tie. kristen clark is with the lawyer's committee for civil rights under law, a nonprofit organization that has brought the majority of the pending voter rights cases in the state of georgia. welcome, kristen. >> thank you. >> you've called georgia ground zero for voter suppression. why? >> when we think about the voter suppression playing out across the country right now, we see the voting discrimination at every level, at the local level, at the state level. you just talked about gwinnette county. this is the most racially diverse in the southeastern section of the u...

This wednesday congressional democrats introduced legislation to restore what was lost in that 2013 ruling called the voting rights advancement act of 2015. joining me now is contributing writer for the nation magazine and author of "give us the ballot." the modern struggle for voting rights in america. >> thank you for having me and blurbing my book. now it's official. the bill is significant because it does two major things. it forces those states with a history of voting discrimination over the last 25 years to approve their voting changes to prevent future discrimination including 13 state...

With a history of voting discrimination to seek federal approval before making changes to voting laws and 40 of north carolina's 100 counties were covered at the time of the decision. just a month later north carolina's republican legislature and its republican governor enacted a spate of tough, new voting restrictions and lopped a week off the early voting period. they ended same day registration during early voting and banned the extension of voting hours due to long lines at the polls. starting in 2016, voters will have to show a government approved photo i.d. card. as for what qualifies as...