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Voting rights act it was too racist to be legal. well, after tha supreme court case, which gutted voting rights act in 2013, with the feds no longer allowed to look over their shoulder while they did this, the commissioners went ahead and enacted a big section of their plan that had previously been blocked. they didn't get all the way to where they wanted. they did get rid of one of the democrats, but that one black democratic county commissioner was still there. and so now, ten years after their first go at it, now they're finally getting it done. this week the republicans, the all-white repu...

To try and do the things that they had not been allowed to do because under the voting rights act it was too racist to be illegal. after that supreme court case, which gutted the voting rights act in 2013, with the feds no longer a lot to look over the shoulder what they did things like this, the republican commissioner and galveston county texas, went ahead and enacted a big section of the plant that had previously been blocked. they didn't get all the way to where they wanted. they didn't get rid of one of the democrats. but that one black democratic county commissioner was still there. and ...

Who represent -- who are represented by the 96% that you're referring to that actually want to see this done -- >> dude, dude, joe manchin, dude, joe manchin represents 40% as many people as live in metropolitan detroit -- >> i'm with you, i'm with you. that's why i wanted to spend time talking about the process. you got to reform the process. >> you are right on. no, are you right on. >> appreciate it. congressman andy levin, appreciate you spending time with us. appreciate you. coming up, texas gained two congressional seat thanks to the census. how the new voting maps are already facing l...

You're referring to that actually want to see this done >> dude, dude, joe manchin, dude, joe manchin represents 40% as many people as live in metropolitan detroit -- >> i'm with you, i'm with you. that's why i wanted to spend time talking about the process. you got to reform the process. >> you are right on. no, are you right on. >> appreciate it. congressman andy levin, appreciate you spending time with us. appreciate you. coming up, texas gained two congressional seat thanks to the census. how the new voting maps are already facing legal challenges for discrimination. plus, congress wan...

And asian-americans face discrimination. and so what we're seeing here, i think, is not just an attention to demographic change but a kind of real interpretation that does help us to explain the attacks on students learning about structural racism in classrooms and explains some of the anxieties that were behind the january 6th insurrection, for instance. >> absolutely. exactly. i think that's the thing we have to think about. on just the pragmatic level, it also explains what we're about to see i'm guessing in terms of gerrymandering, right? >> this is data that will be used to draw voting ma...