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Defense and education fund, which is representing the plaintiff that brought this case. miss nelson, thank you for being with us this evening. this is a bit of a liars and a truth teller statement, because the supreme court justice kavanaugh's opinion of this suggests that they are acting in the interests of the citizens of the voters of alabama by not allowing changes to the maps as they say to close to an election. tell me what's wrong with that argument. >> there's a lot wrong with that argument. it allows a map to stay in place that a three judge federal court found to be discriminatory an...

Its gop-drawn congressional map, which the justice department contends is discriminatory against black and hispanic residents. how would you as state ag strengthen voting rights in your state, understanding that your state government is likely to remain dominated by republicans bent on restricting them? and is it possible without federal help? >> it's exactly what the case before the united states supreme court turned on. it's the area that we must use to act. article 2 says you can't discriminate against the black or brown or any racial class in order to minimize the effective voting power. t...

Elections. we'll see more of these fights play out across the country as harry is laying out there because of the 2020 census a lot of redistricts or a lot of districts are being redrawn and some people are saying they're unfair. so whaths happening in alabama is despite the fact that the population of black voters went up, so it increased, alabama tried to have only one congressional district to jam all of the black voters in and the claim is that dill lutes the voting power. now the lower court says that's unfair. that violates the voting rights act so alabama has to add a second congression...

>> we don't really believe what the mcmichaels have to say. they have taken the stand. travis specifically, the triggerman who murdered ahmad ar arbery. they were interested in the trial going forward. they want to see it played out. they want to see the trial take its course. we also believe that because the state convictions took place first and that it received the sentence, that the federal trial is more about hearing the facts on the record. >> let's go to the supreme court. this week, overturning a lower court decision that found alabama's republican-drawn congressional map diminishes bl...

If there were asian lives matter right now, you would be out in front of the white house, unfortunately you're not out there yet. these guys need to mobilize because no one is helping the asians right now. especially new york city. they are putting more homeless shelters in chinatown. no one cares. they aren't politically viable to the democrats. democrats don't care. >> jesse: you have heard a lot of outraged about that and you were just mentioning these homeless shelters that are going into chinatown, listen, if you see someone who is deranged maniac and you see a woman who was walking aroun...