Email issue with epka. I think for passage we ought to deal specifically with emails so we can get something and amend it as we progress through technology, keeping its mind, the spirit of the Fourth Amendment as well. Thank you very much for your attention. I appreciate it. Thank you. Ill invite our Panel Members to join me here on stage, as formidable panel as one could ask for an event like this. Joining me, we have if youre here, greg new james from i know quite well. A Senior Council of the senate for democracy and technology and the hed of the project on freedom, security and technology and cochair of the american Bar Committee on American Civil Liberties. And an attorney in private practice and director of Legal Services for the American Discrimination Committee as well as Legislative Council at the American Civil Liberties union. A veteran of the fight for judicial privacy and is also a driving force behind the digital due process coalition. We have several members represented
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Lewis was one of many who rallied outside the court this morning for the Voting Rights act. They were there on a day the justices heard a challenge to a key section of the law it requires states with a history of discrimination mainly in the deep south to get federal approval, or pre clearance, before changing voting procedures or districts. Lewis argued the provision known as section five must be preserved. There are still forces in this country that want to take us back to another period, but were not going back. Weve come too far. Weve made too much progress to go back. The literacy test may be gone; but people are using other means, other tactics and techniques. So we still need section 5 and thats why we are here today standing up for the Voting Rights of all americans. applause brown in 1965, lewis helped lead 600 people across the Edmund Pettus bridge in selma, alabama, where police beat them with nightsticks and state troopers fired tear gas. The event became known as bloody su
Captioning sponsored by Macneil Lehrer productins brown the Supreme Court heard a challenge today to the landmark Voting Rights act from alabama officials who said a key provision has outlived its usefulness. Good evening, im jeffrey brown. Ifill and im gwen ifill on the newshour tonight. Marcia coyle fills us in on the Court Arguments followed by a debate on whether the whole the law is still needed. Brown then, ray suarez reports on the political push to tighten gun control laws, including a ban on assault weapons. Ifill does it matter where we work . Yahoo c. E. O. Marissa mayer sparks uprr by banning employees from working from home. Brown from our coping with Climate Change series, Hari Sreenivasan takes to the slopes and asks could rising temperatures endanger future ski seasons . You dont know if youre going to have good snow. You dont know if its going to come early or late, or if the spring is going to become warm, and the season is going to end prematurely. We just dont have