they re appealing to the very people who destroyed the voting rights act in the first place. jit they right? they re appealing to people who do not believe that the constitution requires them to look at the discriminatory effect of laws, to figure out if the law is racially biased. so the lawsuit is, should work, but that would assume neutral ash to arbiter which we don t have anymore, we know. the concern i have, and i spoke with officials from the naacp and folks from lccw. the question i have i throw to you is, let s say this lawsuit goes forward. and that the lawsuit is successful in the state appeals or the other way around. it s going to appeal to the circuit that s down there in the southeast. ultimately this is a case that could go before the supreme court but we know that the john roberts court led by john roberts himself, supposed new swing vote essentially trying to
washington post normally you would see something out of the state department, a formalized response. we haven t seen that in this case. ad hoc comments from the president of the united states. play you one comment that comes from a 60 minutes interview clip released early this morning. take a listen. was he murdered by the saudis and did the prince give the order to kill him? nobody knows yet, but we ll probably be able to find out. it s being investigated. it s being looked at very, very strongly. we would be very upset and angry if that were the case. as of this moment they deny it and deny it vehemently. could it be them? yes. we re going to get to the bottom of it and there will be severe punishment. the thing i heard that s familiar is they deny it, which is what donald trump typically says about vladimir putin when it comes to election rigging. what do you make of that response from the president? foreign policy is being run by a man who values close political and bus
voters is not new. it s what jim crow was literally all about. right? yeah. now they have the courts. whenever conservatives have the courts they push forward these anti-voting strategies. last summer, the supreme court ruled about a case in ohio that allowed ohio to purge voters if they missed two election cycles. they did it in ohio and exactly what they ve done in indiana purging 10% of the indiana voting population. right? that s last summer. last week the supreme court roomed north dakota didn t have to register people, native americans mainly, who didn t have a permanent address, and the right way and a direct spr supreme court decision to swing the north dakota senate election towards republicans away from heidi heitkamp. this is all happening under a supreme court run by john roberts, you said in your last segment fespent his entire care acting against voter rights.