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>> sean: the voting rights act of 1965 was created to combat discriminatory voting practices but does it have unin tenned consequences? >> it appears that the justice department has been using the voter righting act differently than its writers intended. this is port chester, new york. a small community making national headlines because of its unusual local election. if you are a registered voter here you get six votes when it comes to electing the six member board of trustees. you can vote six times for one candidate or split up votes among different individuals. this is the result of a long ...

The calendar. he lived through the obama years where obama had two years to govern. republicans took back the house and the senate after he was reelected in the midterm after that. how does he manage this? >> especially because progressive anger is really bubbling over on several front seat. it's not just impatience with the infrastructure talks where they think the biden administration is falling back in the 2009 trap of talking with a republican party that doesn't want to reach a deal. they got really ticked off, mostly behind the scenes, with biden for not embracing the voting rights stuff ...

Change some of the voting practices. kimberly, that's exactly what eric holder went after. but why texas? why not some of the other states? >> because it matters to him politically so he'll make an example out of texas. he's trying to work within what the supreme court rules to say that texas doesn't meet the standards. what's going to happen, even if he convinces a judge in texas to do this it will get overruled and struck down by a higher court for sure. more political pandering and holder thinks somebody died and made him god. >> i mean, we're not -- this goes back to lyndon johnson. >> he ...

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