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>>guest: that is correct, a three-judge panel and you will expect a judgment quickly. >>neil: all right, for states like texas that may have had prior discrimination issues they have to go to the front of the behind with a question mark because if you have had a history the federal government is watching you center closely. does that put texas at a disadvantage? >>guest: well, certainly, and particularly what puts them at a disadvantage are the people that this more holder justice department, and in 2005 the justice department approved a law like this in georgia. but the people working on that...

Purposes? >> it's oddly i ron ironic that we're trying to get it passed before this election and they are stopping us. >> eric: charges of hypocrisy are not new to the obama justice department. doj voting section chief when holder first took office. >> i'm here to testify about a new black panther party case. >> eric: it was sparked by this 2008 video. it shows members outside a philadelphia polling place. the one with a billy club called them white devils and you are about to be ruled by the black man. they charged the black panther party with voter intimidation but after holder became attorn...

Days, particularly when it comes to voting matters are aclu and the naacp and you can see that in fact, all the people they've hired into career lawyer jobs, in the voting section, which is a section that handles this, they put, they apply a political litmus test and come from organizations who have litigated against and tried to stop voter i.d. unsuccessfully, including in georgia. >> the supreme court back in 2008 upheld an indiana state law. very similar to this. in fact, it was a 6-3 decision, not close, including justice stevens who wrote for the majority in this case, that said the law r...

Of the d.o.j.. >> to give the background you worked five years in the justice department in the voting section of the justice department? >> that's right. >> tell us what that is. >> we enforce federal election law all around the country, whether it's the voting rights act, election day monitoring. improving of voting laws in 16 states under the section 5 voting acts. a lot of work. >> the voting rights act is obviously needed, and we have this whole issue that came up with the new black panthers outside a polling place in philadelphia, and what did the department of justice do? >> they dismis...

Megyn: well, the military and the midterms. the developing story topping our brand new hour here of "america live." hi, everybody, i'm megyn kelly. we are getting reports from washington today that a justice department official made remarks recently that some say suggested that states delay overseas ballots. essentially robbing thousands of our soldiers of their right to vote. shannon bream has more live from washington. shannon, all right, what exactly can you tell us about this meeting, and what precisely was said? >> well, it involved the deputy chief of the doj voting section within the de...