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-second majority black district to accurately reflect the population. alabama republicans went to the supreme court to block the ruling, that's with the court just did. that's the ruling the supreme court blocked. which means that black voters make up about a quarter of the population alabama will control one seventh of the congressional district is here in the new map. just to be absolutely clear, alabama's congressional map is a flagrant violation of the voting rights act as lower courts saw. now the vr a has been solely hollowed out by the supreme court for years, but up until, well, yester...

♪ ♪ >> gillian: with president biden's $2 trillion spending plan now on ice, democrats in congress turning their attention to pushing through their next big ticket item. its voting rights legislation. congressional correspondent aishah hasnie is here to tell us what is in their bill. hi, aishah. >> hey, aishah. forget what happened, vice president kamala harris warning the u.s. won't be a role model anymore if cong fails to act on voting rights. he told cbs that as democrats go all in and try to hand the president this legislative win. they claim another of the red states pass restrictive ...

Facilitates giving people assistance in the -- in voting if they're disabled or something like that. and this texas law obviously, as you were saying before, actually criminalizes some of that assistance. and so it's a real flat violation of democratic principles and the lawsuit is done incredibly well. >> how long will it take? >> it could take a long time. voting rights cases take a long time, and this is why the provision that is on the floor of the congress right now to restore section 5 of the voting rights act is so important. because what section 5 says is that you can't make changes to...

Extremely difficult to attack unlawful prescriptions on voting practices. >> she testified section 2 is no substitute for the important swift review that was provided by way of section 5 pre-clearance process. the full impact of the supreme court's recent decision on section 2 remains to be seen. however, in the absence of an operational section 5 pre-clearance regime what steps has the justice department taken to increase voting rights under section 2. >> it is the remaining tool. very important and it does give us some impact. in order to better implement that provision we've doubled the siz...

For five minutes. mr. attorney general in 2013 decision shelby county versus holder the supreme court gutted section 5 of the voting rights act rendering its pre-clearance provision inoperative. as a result of this decision the right to vote has come under steady assault and states have spent the past eight years enacting barriers to voting for disen franch aislesed groups. before this committee in august the assistant attorney general testified that section 5 of the voting right acts was the heart of the act and called it the department's most important tool for safeguarding voting rights in ...