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texas began moving forward with plans to implement its voter i.d. laws. in philadelphia yesterday attorney general eric holder announced the justice department is taking action. and, today, i am announcing that the justice department will ask a federal court in texas to subject the state of texas to a preclearance regime similar to the one acquired by section 5 of the voting rights act. we believe that the state of texas should be required to go through a preclearance process whetherever it changes its voting laws and practices. according to a poll out today, majority of adults, 53%, think discrimination in voting still exists. joining with me is kathy. thanks for being here this morning. thank you. let s start with these voter i.d. laws. they are almost exclusively being pushed and implemented by
and that program of preclearance under section 3c needs to be implemented through litigation. and so groups like ours, the advancement project and many voting rights lawyers and the department of justice are looking at doing these types of actions in other states and i hope the d.o.j. takes a closer look at other states that have ongoing discrimination through voter i.d. laws and similar forms of modern day poll taxes and literacy tests. this is a battle has is just beginning. kathy gonzalez, thanks for your time this morning. thank you. it s not dozens and dozens. it is it is six to ten, i suppose. boy, that was anthony weiner guesstimating the number of women he tesexitted with on lin and now the woman who is in the center of this investigation is talking to cameras. you should cr workshops. push your color boundaries
0 state will be asking as set forth page 9. for the court to dismiss a significant number of counts and those that deal with a legal issue of merger so they are going to ask me to dismiss those ultimately today after you ve entered a plea. are you aware that have? yes. yes, i am. all right. so 40 counts will be dismissed and they anticipate you ll plead guilty to the remaining 937, is that clear? i don t necessarily agree on 937. well, dp of evidence and you re waiving any right to further testing of dna evidence? is that clear? yes, it is clear. and, again, the basis, as stated a few paragraphs before, this was that the state is giving up their right to seek the death penalty. is that clear? what they are giving up in order to reach this bargain with you and you re having to give up things too. that s correct. you understand you re also waiving any potential claims on appeal or post-conviction motions? and you re agreeing that, to your knowledge, your attorneys have
voter id laws, very strict photo id laws that can disenfranchise millions. there are other types of cuts of early voting, all kinds of different types of poll taxes and literacy tests and ways to block the voting rights of people of color. and particularly the elderly as you said, so it seems that this year there s an unprecedented wave of voter suppression laws. a lot of litigation, and millions of voters could be impacted before november. unprecedented. kathy gonzalez, thanks for joining us. please keep us apprised as this heads to the supreme court. i appreciate it. all right, this just in, mitt romney was once the governor of an american state. he has a governing record and everything. so why does nobody ever talk about this? one man who can talk about it with some authority is the last massachusetts governor to run for president of the united states. his name is michael dukakis, and