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Participate in politics, it's illegal. when it makes it harder for members of one racial group than others to cast ballots, it should be illegal. the majority made up, according to justice kagan, all of the extra burdens, the size of the burden, the degree to which a voting rule departs from previous practice. justice kagan said, that's not what congress intended. as a result, congress' efforts to forbid efforts to suppress the vote that aren't explicit in their racially discriminatory intent can't be stopped. >> this is the interesting part about this. the explicit. a lot of people have point...

Coincidentally, integrity was the reason for the jim crow laws. ellie, this is what justice alito has now said. he's written his own law which is that there are five factors that courts have to consider whether or not a law is discriminatory. when courts are faced with time, place and manner he writes, any circumstance that has a logical bearing on whether voting is equally open and affords equal opportunity may be considered, nevertheless, he provides a nonexhaustive list, five factors, the size of the burden imposed by a challenged voting rule. the degree to which a voting rule departs from ...

Short term killed off the core of that act. now, whether it can be revived is an open question, one we'll visit in a moment. first, you have to understand what the court did today. there was a lot of confusion because it was complicated on purpose. i want to just walk through it. section 5 is often referred to as the heart of the voting rights act. it requires what's known as preclearance of any changes to the way elections are run in certain parts of this country. now, what is so brilliant about its approach? informed by history, is in the battle days before the voting rights act, some racist...

He wants, my friend across the aisle has shut down the government for hundreds of millions of americans. >> it all really stems from the president whose inability to clinch a deal has created the trump shutdown. i agree with majority leader mcconnell. the trump shutdown was totally avoidable. president trump walked away from not one, but two, bipartisan deals. and that's after he walked away from an agreement in principle on daca we reached way back in the fall of last year. if he had been willing to accept any one of these deals, we wouldn't be where we are today. >> all right, the president ...

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