worse, we have we won the right to vote through listynchi and people being beaten, bloodied, and killed and we can stand up to somebody who will come knocking you. let them come and watch us vote. we re not going to be intimidated. tonight in arizona, democrats won a third case, reverend, against the voter suppression efforts. you ve been fighting the good fight for a long time. did you think that from the very beginning you would be facing these tactic now in 2016? you know, don, that s the sad irony of it. one of the latest that was challenged in this personal knowledge is 100 years old and she found out in the newspapers. this is a woman who came through jim crow. our lead plaintiff, against house bill 589, the monster voting bill jim crow is 93 years old. i think about my mother. my mother integrated public
to come into our community. they re going to come, let em come and watch us vote, but understand we re not going to be moved. we re not going to be intimidated and we re going to vote. tonight in arizona democrats won a third case, reverend, against voter suppression efforts. you have been fighting the good fight for voting rights for a very long time. did you think that back, you know, from the beginning you would still be facing these kinds of tactics now in 2016? you know, don, that s the sad irony of it. one of the ladies that was challenged in this purge is 100 years old and she found out in the newspaper. this is a woman who came through jim crow. our lead plaintiff in our case against house bill 589, the monster voting bill, worst since jim crow is 93 years old. i think about my mother, my mother integrated pun schools, 83 years old. she still goes to work every day. she looked at me and said i never thought i would have a child august 30th, 1963, two
i m gonna let him live in his alternative reality and i m not going to respond. there are candidates and then there are candidates. well, with iowa only four weeks away, are the gloves about to come off? we re going to talk about all of that. a lot going on tonight and we have breaking news, as well. president barack obama taking executive action against gun violence. cnn s evan perez is here with more on that. evan, this executive order likely to engage gun rights activists, enrage them and engage them, as well. we re getting details of the president s plan. what can you tell us about it? that s right, don. he s going to announce these tomorrow. there s 589 of window dressing. there s not a lot of really big regulation here. frankly, as the president points
holder. that was the famous supreme court case that took place in 2013 and essentially essentially stopped the preclearance formula that was usually used for states like north carolina. after shelby v. holder was passed, then states that usually had to go through a preclearance process with the department of justice no longer had to. a slew of voter suppression lawsuits took place because a slew of voter suppression bills were passed, i colluding in north carolina. house bill 589 was one of the most restrictive voter suppression measures passed across the nation. this case will put house bill 589 on the table and test it under section ii standard as opposed to preclearance standard that took place before shelby v. holder was passed. doing away with a week of early voting ending samt day registration and preregistration for some ending the counting out of precinct ballots, all of
take 12 years of work from 2000 to 2012 where we worked hard to expand and enable people to participate in the franchise. early voting was expanded same-day registration sunday voting. in 2010 the first thing they did was pass the worst redistricting plan we ve seen since the 19th century and packed 15% of black voters into 27 out of 29 house districts, 47 black voters into senate districts, thereby creating apartheid districts. in 2013 when they took over the majority they went after every law that expanded and enabled the franchise. melissa, here s the uniqueness of it. on august 4th 2013 the anniversary of the assassination of dr. king was when house bill 589 was filed. it was only a voter i.d. but it was the worst voter i.d. in the country. after shelby one of the