it may. this is a concerted effort. it is propelled by the mlk day holiday next monday. schumer intends to hold a vote. it will be a show vote in the senate to figure out where every senator stands to push through the legislation. back in august, the house passed the john lewis voting rights act to restore pour to the federal government to make sure that states don t have rules that would disenfranchise minority voters and the bills languished in the senate and not just that democrats have to find at least ten republicans to vote with them. there is pushback within the democratic ranks about making those rules changes a carveout for voting rights if it looks like they won t have the ten
these states go through the preclearance. so now that many of the states, in fact the brendan center calculating that 43 states have enacted some sort of voting restriction. these states don t have to go through a pre-clearance. so the only real way to challenge these laws is through section two and progressives were hoping that the court here would not weaken the way that groups could challenge these laws and in fact, guys, we re seeing in this 6-3 decision that in fact section two has been weakened. we re going through the final points of this decision and we ll get back to you on exactly how. but this is a defeat for people challenging these voting laws around the country, guys. we have jeffrey toobin joining us now. at a critical time. a time when multiple state legislatures are passing laws that restrict the right to vote. so if 2013, section five is weakened. no more federal oversight rights in effect for these kinds of
it is worth remembering when both gorsuch, and brett kavanaugh and amy coney barrett were nominated, millions were spent from dark money operations on behalf of her nominations. millions were spent on television commercials, we don t know who put up that money. because the laws do not require disclosure of that. now they do require disclosure of money donated to campaigns themselves. but as we all know, lots of money is spent in this country that is not technically given to campaign committees, but given for political purposes, including the confirmation of supreme court nominees. well the people who gave millions of dollars to support the nomination of gorsuch, of kavanaugh, of barrett, they got what they paid for today for sure because they got the supreme court results they wanted and we still don t know
program comes directly from washington and states don t have to match it or supplement it they have no real ownership in making sure the program is actually working properly. shannon live forness washington. shannon, thank you. martha? all right, we will have more on that breaking news in moments as the showdown over a very big change to the senate rules has now taken a dramatic turn today on capitol hill. you need to hear about this. that s up next. also, after the jury found george zimmerman not guilty, some high profile media figures chimed in with their own judgments on social media. so who said what? and why is it getting so much attention? and who is regretting what they said now. he didn t know why he was turned in to this monster. you guys had a lot to do with it. you just did. because you took a story that was sent to you and you ran with it and you ran right over him.
tough political way make gay rights an issue that they could be used used as a wedge issue against president clinton. this was an effort by bob dole, who was head of the republican party that year, to try to insert gay rights into the 1996 presidential election and to use it as a wedge issue against president clinton. right. so, the background on it was there was a case in hawaii that was suggesting that possibly hawaii would legalize same-sex marriage. a republican issue ated thing we ll have doma which says the federal government doesn t have to recognize hawaii s no, no, no. but also no, no. the entire debate, it s very interesting now. the entire debate, as my recollection is, all the debate was on section 2 of doma. that state one does not have to recognize gay marriage performed in state two. nobody discussed section 3 of doma, which is what the supreme court just overturned that says the right. states don t have to