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That's true. but the politicians -- we've never going to get rid of this 13th or 14th amendment. it's perpetual. the constitution itself. >> i want to bring in dabo. counsel for the defense fund who just argued for the shelby county. he joins us from shelby, alabama who is taking place in the selma civil rights market. dabo, first of all, nice job on wednesday. i was incredibly impressed. and second of all, what was your sense of being in that room, standing before those justices, particularly on this question of who should be making this call? >> well, i come back to acela mars' point that th...

♪ welcome to new york. i'm chris hayes here with tom colicchio chef and executive direct of the "place at the table." we're talking about the role that food kind of plays in our culture. i want to play this clip from portlandia that satirizes the obsession with food. take a look. >> if you have any questions about the menu, please let me know. >> i guess i do have a question about the chicken if you can tell us about it. >> the chicken is a heritage breed. woodland raised chicken that's been fed a diet of sheep's milk, soy and hazelnuts. >> this is local? >> yes, absolutely. >> what if you...

Home-ec out of schools. we're not teaching anymore. the whole generation that learned how to cook, they're not passing that down anymore. from parent to parent. >> you interrupt that chain. "top chef" i want to talk about for a second. i love the show. there's something about why it works so well. what is it -- this is a real fan-based question, why doesn't it work like that? somebody who does television for a living. the structure of it really would year in and year out? >> that structure is something that we're always messing with. sometimes we mess with it too much. we're constantly tinkeri...

To allocate the power to congress is specifically because states, and to some degree, the court itself, were participants in the perpetuation of racial cast through slavery. and so the country made a different choice. it made a choice to move forward and to actively tend to our democracy with the minority inclusion principle. and the only way to get there is to recognize our history and to recognize its continuing claims. >> i want to play what i thought was a really interesting moment on this question of the balance between congress and the courts on this question. and this is --bert rein is ...

Our democracy. and the second question, and this say question that requires a closer explanation, is whether the problem today still remains most intense in certain places as opposed to others. this part of the voting rights act covering all or part of 16 states. and congress took a very hard look at this question and it found that indeed although there's voting discrimination in many places, the nature of the problem in the covered jurisdictions is that it tends to be more persistent and adaptive. there are more repetitive violations such that as a single case is inadequate to dispel the disc...