to the ballot box for people who are not white. this ruling from the supreme court this week is basically a big green light to republican legislatures which are trying to make it harder for people to vote. it is signaling any court challenges that we have seen this year could fail like the challenge to the arizona law just did. if you are on that side of the fight, if you are trying to knock down laws that make it harder to vote, where is your head at right now? joining us now, cecilia wong at the aclu. they filed a brief with the supreme court arguing the arizona laws violated section 2 of the voting rights act. thank you for being with us this evening. i think that s not common language for many people who are relatively well read on the topic. what does that mean? the voting rights act says you candidate make laws that make it harder for an identifiable group to vote. what congress meant when it enacted the latest version of section 2 of the voting rights
had no problem with this oversight. in 2014 when they used a whistle-blower to start going after the obama justice department, they filed a brief with the supreme court arguing for whistle-blower enhancement protection. i want to send a cease and desist to that. he needed a lift. he looked so short compared to donald trump. donald trump was looking down at him and he s just going away. i use pillows sometimes because i m short. you have been reading what they have been writing. i urge all our government leaders, all members of congress to step back and reflect on the important role they play.
had, you guys, i ve realized when one is confident in their answers, they re usually confidence and willing to take the question. i suspect you re not getting responses because there s nothing good there. kurt, let s talk about the whistle-blower. rand paul is leading the charge to out the whistle-blower here. he did it from a stage in kentucky, gave some context around the identity of the whistle-blower that led some people, don junior was out posting potential names, retweeting reports from variouswomen websitvarious websites and who it might be. what s the danger in outing the whistle-blower? republicans have made the best case for protecting whistle-blowers back when they were using them when they were investigating barack obama. in 2012, 2014, they filed a brief with the supreme court arguing for protecting whist whistle-blowers saying that if you allow the government to go in and out whistle-blowers, it could have a chilling effect on
john bolton. how does this affect the way the government handles top prioritie priorities? the turnover has been unprecedented. i think everybody would agree this is turmoil, chaos, confusion. it s not good for anything. we always believe that there should be an orderly process, and of course government is not clean or orderly ever, but this seems to be beyond normal. you worked with john bolton. i have had some contact with him in the past in various administrations, but not very much. do you have any thoughts about the criticism of his temperament or ability to reconcile disparate points of view, work with pompeo? i don t have enough of a personal opinion to share that with you. i want to ask you about your case. the unusual situation here and you filed a brief with the supreme court. they ll have a conference, as you ve just explained to me, on
the merits so there s a hearing scheduled for october 10 in the supreme court, and some time after that, there will be a ruling from the supreme court, but it really does send a dangerous message about refugees as well as the entry of muslim visitors and immigrants from other countries, and that s why we re not just talking about it but we re fighting it every step of the way. and so we re not only planning to file a brief with the supreme court but just this week, we filed a public records request with the state department seeking more information about these screening procedures and what they re doing and how it s been carried out in our name. it certainly started as a messy rollout, it s continued to be a very big mess. we re going to continue to follow this closely and i hope to talk to you about this again very soon. great to see you today. thanks for having me. a dream come true for college graduates, student loans wiped out. that is unbelievable. coming up next, the $5 bil