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Asian-americans, in terms even of white voters in the middle of some big city in the north. that's a possibility too. but let's get serious about it. i think the way to approach this is for the democrats to say, look, let's move forward here. this is an opportunity to renew for the next century the spirit of the civil rights acts of the '60s. they need to seize the momentum here because -- and at the very least what they're going to have to do is raise a whole lot of money for a whole lot of lawsuits all over the country. that's sort of what's going to happen here. i think preclearance is dead...

Discriminatory voting schema, to that they basically have to go and get checked out by the justice department first whenever they make a change, we're going to redistrict, change things about our voting procedures. got to go to the justice department and say, hey, is this cool? the reason for this, of course, there is a long history in which many parts of this country used their voting rules explicitly as ways of denying the vote to african-americans but also other people of color, right? there is a lot of worry this thing is going to be killed by this court. i want to hear -- this voting righ...

Justice department first whenever they make a change, we're going to redistrict, we're going to change things about our voting procedures. you got to go to the justice department and say, hey, is this cool? the reason for this, of course, there is a long history in which many parts of this country have used their voting rules explicitly as ways of denying the vote to african-americans but also other people of color, right? there is a lot of worry that this thing is going to be killed by this court. i want to hear -- this voting rights is something that's huge and near and dear to our hearts at...

The u.s. supreme court on the verge of two major decisions, dealing with racial discrimination in the country. in the coming weeks, affirmative action programs at the nation's public colleges and universities could be uprooted and a federal statute that guards against discrimination in state and local voting procedures could be weakened. joining me is ary melberg, host of msnbc's "the cycle." it's a pleasure to have you here away from those cyclists, this way you can talk on your own. court is soon going to rule on this suit brought by a ut austin student, abigail fisher. she claims she was re...

Chimney, so simple, yet so poignant. everybody has their eyes on it. it means so much to so many people, whether or not you're catholic, and if you take a look this morning at st. peter's square, there are people out there, and i'll tell you, the weather is not hospitable. it's cold here, it's raining on and off, but there's expectations. we're waiting. they will say that in italian here. what we know is this, this is a very big day for several reasons. why? there are a lot of issues on the table. and even though the voting procedures as we have learned are very solemn in occasion, it's not po...