/PRNewswire/ Ahead of National Voter Registration Day on September 20th, DoSomething.org, the national hub for youth-centered activism, today launches "The.
think week that i haven t had before because who are we trying to convince? 80 to 90% of america is convinced. they don t need to see that. the president is convinced. he doesn t need to see it. the house of representatives is currently acting in a way where they are convinced. they don t need to see it and so is half the senate. and so the ten members that we would need from the other side of the senate who aren t convinced, showing them the photos isn t going to make a difference. it isn t going to change who they are. the only thing that is going to change this now is for america to make clear that from this day forward the first question they will ask of any candidate is do you support gun safety? and if you don t, i will not be voting for you. for america to make clear from this day forward that they are putting out together their voting plan to be ready to vote on this issue so that there s no
his school has over 75% vaccination rate, i believe, for students and 100% for the teachers. so we have done everything right. as of friday, chicago was averaging more than 5,000 new cases a day. we ll stay on top of the story as it develops right here on cnn. in the coming hours the president will ramp up efforts to pass voting rights bill. he ll make a visit to atlanta, but many activists said they won t attend the president s event because they don t want another speech, another finalized voting plan. jeff zeleny has the story for you. reporter: president biden and vice president harris will be headed to atlanta tuesday to make another push for voting rights on capitol hill. there s been resistance in the
the 1980s as approve a voting plan that reasonably tries to correct some of the political excesses that go on at the local level. now you have a state that s 27% black and they have exactly one district out of seven as far as black voters go in alabama. by every standard the court has upheld, that would be on its face suspicious and after extensive discovery at the local level, they found that it was unlawful. this court has said, nope, they re going to change the law, they re going to let it go through. it s going to have implications all over the country. jeffrey, what do you make of justice kavanaugh s argument that this is in fact related to the election, the upcoming primary election there and it s just too close to an election date. do you think they would have stayed the case had this been perhaps six months ago? how much weight are you putting on the upcoming election factor in itself? i don t think this is an issue about timing.
essentially turned out that provided some federal oversight of communities that make decisions like this, section two, by the way, you guys know this better than me, is the one that allows no law to discriminate on the basis of color. that s where this is going here, right? do you view this as jeffrey does, to the courts leaning toward signaling that section two is going to be gone too? oh, sure. this is an act of the court. no mistake about it. this is a five vote majority in favor of rapidly unraveling minority voting rights. there s just no question about it. consider this, jim. the three judge panel that approved the voting plan that would have created appointed by donald trump. i mean, this is not any way radical or unusual to have a lower court. they ve been doing this since