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The 1980s as approve a voting plan that reasonably tries to correct some of the political excesses that go on at the local level. now you have a state that's 27% black and they have exactly one district out of seven as far as black voters go in alabama. by every standard the court has upheld, that would be on its face suspicious and after extensive discovery at the local level, they found that it was unlawful. this court has said, nope, they're going to change the law, they're going to let it go through. it's going to have implications all over the country. >> jeffrey, what do you make of just...

Essentially turned out that provided some federal oversight of communities that make decisions like this, section two, by the way, you guys know this better than me, is the one that allows no law to discriminate on the basis of color. that's where this is going here, right? do you view this as jeffrey does, to the courts leaning toward signaling that section two is going to be gone too? >> oh, sure. this is an act of the court. no mistake about it. this is a five vote majority in favor of rapidly unraveling minority voting rights. there's just no question about it. consider this, jim. the thre...

Starting with the president taking a trip to europe without awaiting congress. and a possibility that they won't get the win in virginia one is almost certain. a fox news poll after the virginia governor's race showing republicans leading over democrats likely voted by an eight-point margin, this is a dramatic shake-up for months and then the election that was seen as a snapshot of where voters stand nationwide, democrats say they have delivered there on capitol hill could spell trouble in 2022. hear from president biden's own party on the voting plan yesterday which leaves him to face world l...

Separate infrastructure bill. $1.2 trillion, and perhaps that can get through the senate or the house if they can get to that point. a lot of questions still but talks are progressing. >> also at the same time, we hear that any minute now the senate will be voting on a major voting rights bill. what's the status, what do we expect to happen there? >> the voting right now, the tally is 48 no votes, 43 yes votes. we don't expect this to get the 60 votes they need. no chance they can get that. that was not expected because republicans are voting in mass and in unison against that voting plan, the...

Perhaps one of the most strained departments right now with everything else it's tackling. talk to us a little bit about how you see the justice department going about this and trying to reverse this trend of voter suppression. >> great. i haven't heard the beginning, so pardon me if i repeat anything, but basically, you know, the justice department has had, traditionally, strong legal tools to enforce the voting rights act. the strongest of which was called section 5, which required before many states and jurisdictions passed any sort of restrictive voting plan to have that pre-cleared by the...