The committee on the judiciary subcommittee on the constitution civil rights and Civil Liberties will come to order. Without authorized to declare recess to the subcommittee at any time. I welcome everyones attendance herein t here and the hearing, Voting Rights act, Shelby County v. Holder. This is the sixth an verniversaf Shelby County v. Holder. Normally what i would do, id give an Opening Statement of five minutes and the Ranking Member would give one of five minutes. Miss clarke, one of of witnesses, has a 3 40 train, which would have been easy to accomplish were it not for the house of representatives schedule. Well go straight to her statement, and go back to the traditional i talk he talk, panel. Miss clarke is the president and executive director of the committee for civil rights law under law, one of the nations leading civil rights organizations. She previously worked for seven years at the naacp Legal Defense and Education Fund where she helped lead the organizations work i
Act. This is just under two hours. The committee on the judiciary subcommittee on the constitution civil rights and Civil Liberties will come to order. Welcome everyone in attendance. Normally what we would do if i could give an Opening Statementt and the Ranking Member would give one a. Ms. Clark one of the witnesses has a 3 40 train which would have been easy to accomplish if it werent for the house of representatives schedule and with the permission of the member we are going straight to the statement and back to the traditional i talk, he talks, somebody else talks. Ms. Clark and thank you for being here. President and executivpresident r of the civil rights law under the civil rights organizations. Previously worked for seven years at the naacp Legal Defense and Education Fund where she helped lead the Organization Work in the voters rights across the country and worked on cases defending the constitutionality of the Voting Rights act. Prior to joining the Legal Defense fund she w
Economy through the next leg of expansion. We will come back to david we come back to you in just a moment. We what to go to Kevin Cirilli at the white house. Tell us about what happened at the mall. Are you down there . Then i was not there for actual speech but i was hanging around the area. President trump striking in a political tone in his address featuring the first lady. There were a from all of the Different Military branches. He praised prominent africanamerican leaders like Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman and he said the u. S. Economy has never been stronger than it is today. It was largely President Trump trying to deliver a unifying speech. He faced criticism from democrats who argued it was a waste of money. It went off without a hitch. Even the rain cannot stop the fireworks. Guy in the meantime david in the meantime, we heard from the president about the census. We thought that was resolved, now it appears not so fast. Kevin precisely. President trump saying he is
Trade war. With have gone protests hong kongs legislature over the bill and trump raising rhetoric on tariffs. At least gdp with fewer options if he does not meet with them, perhaps more tariffs according to present trump and if the case as well, he risks losing credibility and china as well. Kongop story today is hong where protesters are gathering this morning. Severalheard of thousands of people out there this morning, thoughts of boycotts and strikes as well. Give us a flavor of what is happening. Pretty charged atmosphere. Or the trees, you can see protesters have flooded out and in the one of the main part of hong kong and police have not enabled to push them occupiedit feels like territory that happened five years ago. People thought the failure of the on brother revolution, but the spirit of opposition has been crushed with at least 240,000 people out on the street. As one milliony here. The beginning of 66 hours, a bill that has concerned so many a firehere, leading to were be
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