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Against its basest impulses. joining us is ari berman, author of the book give us the ballot and kim atkins, as msnbc contributor. ari, you have done such reporting on this story. first, you reaction to the supreme court decision today? thank you so much, nicolle. it is a dark day for the voting rights act and it is a dark day for democracy. the supreme court has essentially eviscerated what is left of the voting rights act, leaving it severely weakened. remember, nicolle, they already gutted the voting rights act in 2013 and ruled that those states with the longest histories of discrimination, like georgia and texas, don t have to approve their voting changes with the federal government. but then they said in that decision, there s another part of the voting rights act that s left that could be used to combat discriminatory voting measures. well, now they ve essentially gutted that part of the voting rights act as well. so they have taken the twin vott ....

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