roberts argument and the majority ruling in this case? chief justice roberts arguing that essentially this law is a vestige of an earlier era, that the kind of discrimination that justified this type of remedy in the first place no longer require this kind of remedy? we need some different way of approaching these matters now, times have changed. well, the only thing i would have said to justice roberts if i had an opportunity to talk with him, i would say not to forget the past. not to forget the history. i would invite him and the other four members of the court to walk in my shoes. to travel with me through alabama. through the delta of mississippi. through southwest georgia. and not just walk in my shoes, but walk in the shoes of others that stood in those unmovable line. there s some history there. we cannot forget that history. as justice ginsburg said, if we
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and the doctor standing over the body thinking about what to do next turns out is a republican. the voting rights act did not have section 5 struck down. preclearance still exists theoretically. the voting rights act can be saved right away if congress decides to save it. the democrats want to save it. unanimously. the democrats, they control the senate, their judiciary chairman in the senate today said he ll get to work immediately on legislation to save it. the republicans control the house, so far their judiciary chairman has said nothing. this is the cornerstone of american civil rights law. this is legacy time. what are you guys going to do? congressman john lewis joins us next. la s known definitely for its traffic, congestion, for it s smog. but there are a lot of people that do ride the bus. and now that the busses are running on natural gas, they don t throw out as much pollution to the earth.
which means nobody needs to get preclearance anymore. nobody is getting any scrutiny at all with changing their election laws until congress manages to find a new way to figure out who ought to be on that list. republican governors and state legislatures are already today, the day of the ruling, rolling out new round of ways to make voting harder in ways that are racially discriminatory enough that they could not have done them when the voting rights act was still in effect yesterday. joining us now is john lewis, congressman of georgia, one of the 13 original freedom riders and a civil rights activist who nearly died trying to secure every americans right to vote. congressman john lewis, thank you so much for being with us. thank you very much, rachel, for having me tonight. you called this supreme court ruling a dagger in the heart of the voting rights act when you first heard about it today. since then, have you heard anything from your colleagues in washington that gives you a