but also how this may limit what it can do. so this was a statutory interpretation case. it wasn t a constitutional interpretation case so congress could come back and rewrite the statute, just like congress can come back and restore preclearance. justice alito in his opinion suggested that might be unconstitutional. if you start making states have to change their voting rules that might infringe on the constitutional rights of states much like the court said back in 2013 when they killed off preclearance. even if congress acts not clear that the supreme court, this very conservative supreme court would agree it s permissible to do so under the constitution. thanks for helping us understand all of it. thanks. out front next the billionaire space race launched to a whole new level. looks like richard branson might beat jeff bazos to space.
his wife and makes plans to go back on stage, we re learning more about the man whose actions led to cosby getting out of prison. bruce caster, also known as one of trump s impeachment lawyers. let s go outfront. good evening, everyone. i m poppy harlow in for erin burnett. a scheme to defraud that s what prosecutors said what former president trump s company did to the government for over 15 years. at the center of the case, trump s right hand main, allen weisselberg, charged with 15 feltny counts. you see him here in handcuffs walking into court. both the trump organization and weisselberg pleading not guilty today. but the charges are serious, and carry significant consequences. weisselberg is 73 years old and could face a significant amount of time in prison if he s convicted. weisselberg knows the inner workings of the trump organization. he s been by trump s side since 1973. even appearing with him on the
apprentice. the former president praised wiseleberg in his book, writing, he did whatever was necessary to protect the bottom line. that may be what s gotten him into so much legal trouble, he would do anything for trump and he knows poppy much everything about him. just listen to weisselberg s former daughter-in-law. it s been his life. he s always been saved by donald. he knows everything about donald. next to a family member, and perhaps even more than a family member, he knows everything about donald. everything went through donald. you name it. allen weisselberg s payments, rent, everything, would have donald s signature on it or his initial. former president trump, for his part, released a statement after a statement today, slamming the charges and the case against his company and executives saying the political witch hunt by the radical left
concealing that he lived in new york city when at the time he was living in an apartment paid for by the former president s own company. so they did enter their not guilty pleas today. the trump organization is punching back, and the next court date will be september 15. weisselberg was released on his own, although he did surrender his passport. poppy? how are the trump organization lawyers responding to these charges? reporter: this is going to be a big battle. the trump organization say thing is a political vendetta. they said that the district attorney s office hasn t prosecuted actual crimes, that they didn t prosecute the big banks from the financial crisis that resulted in trillions in losses, and they re taking a case that should have been hand lted as a civil matter and turning it into a criminal case. but they re making this into a political match where they re saying this was all politically motivated, and we heard the former president calling it a
it was preclearance under section 5 under the voting rights act where states with a history had to get approval before their laws. in a less well-known case in 2008 called crawford the supreme court made it very hard to constitutional challenges to restrictive voting rules. what was left was section 2 of the voting rights act which says that minority voters should have the same opportunity as others to participate in the process and elect their choice. this now is very difficult standard to be able to meet. this also comes at a time when the justice department announced it would sue the state of georgia over its new restrictive voting law, and the department of justice said, look, it s aimed at black or minority voters. doesn t this ruling make it a lot harder for the doj to prevail in georgia in that case and then beyond any future cases