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Issues. >> absolutely. . political incentives for the republican party are all on the side of restricting voting rights because all of the emergent groups of voters, whether hispanic voters, young voters, women, african-americ s african-americans, minorities, are all trending to the other party. in states like ohio, all of those purple states where barack obama won, all the political incentives to them say restrict voting rights. i think what's great here is attorney general holder is doing exactly what we would hope the attorney general would do in this situation. he's saying section 4 has go...

Are political implications to a great many of the court's decisions and so the court and politics have never been far apart. >> and there is a split on the court on whether they believe the constitution is a living, or breathing document and we should be following the original intent. depending on the way we feel, it leads to the 5- 4 decision. you can point out the liberals are more happy with the court an the conservatives right now. and not all. one thing many on the left were unhappy about last week was the voting right's case. we will uphold the voting acts. and we'll not enforce the nine...

Laws. and it reminds me, when for instance, when you had civil rights in the 1960s. the democratic party in the south was, it was the home of every white voter in the south. when you had civil rights in the national party embraced it and it was the voting right, they began joining the democratic party. there was this outflow of whites so now in a state like mississippi, it is 90% of white people will vote republican. the theory being offered here is that actually the less white the country gets, maybe the more republican white voters will get so that 59% could climb into the 60s or something. ...

Tiger woods won a golf tournament in front of nobody because it was really hot. >> on the fourth day, people were there. but on the third day, nobody got to see this, which, i mean, i'm not a golf fan, this doesn't bother me particularly. and i actually -- can we make this a partisan story, please? can we inject politics here? >> sure. it's obama's fault that it's so hot? >> can i blame george sorros? >> i'm sure it was the koch brothers. >> can i blame the new enemy of the right, john roberts? can i? >> yes. >> go for it. >> he didn't do anything, he didn't stop it. so it's his fault. >> he d...

Essentially running up toward the election, is there way to stop this sort of thing. is there way to fix it? >> there's one way, which is that the justice department which has the obligation to pre-clear things under section five of the voting rights act could say this affects the voting right offense minorities. it's public opinion, public attention and the reaction of local officials, some of whom