objected to more than 1,000 discriminatory voting changes between 1965 and 2006. but in recent years, the protections of federal voting rights law have been drastically weakened. in 2013, the shelby county decision effectively eliminated the pre-clearance protections of the voting rights act which had been the department s most effective tool to protect voting rights over the past half century. since that opinion, there has been a dramatic rise in legislative efforts that will make it harder for millions of citizens to cast a vote that counts. so far this year, at least 14 states have passed new laws that make it harder to vote. and some jurisdictions, based on disinformation, have utilized
0 it s great to see you. i m geoff bennett, and as we come on the air, there is a lot happening on this summer friday. this hour we will see president biden and the first lady at the g7 summit in the u.k. they re about to have a gathering of world leaders and they ll be joined by british royals. we ll have it for you live if it happens. back here at home, there is bombshell news on the trump doj, saying they seized the records of high democratic lawmakers and their families members all hunting down leaks about trump and his contacts with russia. obviously deeply suspicious of what the justice department was doing. more than that, this looks like a patent abuse of the department, yet another example of the president politicizing, using the department of justice as a cudgel to go after his enemies. more that in a moment, but any moment attorney general merrick garland is expected to announce new actions by the doj to protect voting rights in this country. as legislatures attempt to r
was a decision that passed in the first instance on the detainee treatment act. so to the extent i was involved in providing advice as a lawyer about the detainee treatment act, i am sure, yes. okay. you ve read the shelby county decision. if you were on the court, which side would you have voted with? senator, i admire the various wa
sir, hamden, i recall was a decision that passed in the first instance on the treaty act. to the extent that i was involved and providing advice as a lawyer about the detainee treatment act, i m sure, yes. you read the shelby county decision. if you re in the court, which side would you have voted with? senator , i admire the varis
i ve been so selma several times with congressman lewis and a number of others and last year many of us joined congressman lewis for the 50th anniversary of that famous march across the bridge when he faced violence and the response, the conscience of the nation was stirred by this horrible event. and it spurred congress to pass the bipartisan voting rights act. there s been a lot of questioning back and forth about your comments about whether the voting rights act was intrusive and is the shelby county decision. i wanted to come back to an important point, which was senator leahy and i and a number of others tried to hard to find republican partners to advance the voting rights advancement act which would have replaced the 50-years old roughly preclearance formula with a new one that would be national in scope, would not disadvantage any region and would be simply based on enforcement actions. previous questioning by i think