Endured that day but bloody sunday was a turning point in the civil rights movement. Those images of alabama state troopers beating and gassing john lewis. He s one in the backpack, and his fellow protesters, both horrified and galvanized americans and their politicians. The landmark voting rights act passed just five months after bloody sunday, and its provisions held for half a century until the hard right conservatives on the u. S. Supreme court made their idiotic decision to throw out its provision requiring certain historically discriminatory parts of the country to get preclearance from the justice department before making any changes that affect voting. To quote the late justice ruth bader ginsburg in her dissent, throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you re not getting wet. That s what the john lewis voting rights act seeks to restore and even expand, those
Behind. What do you do? these are the types of impossible choices that parents across this country are up against. We ll talk to one of them in a minute. Headlines like these make it even more frightening. Children s hospitals, mostly in the south, overwhelmed by a surge in young covid patients. One mom in tulsa spent the last week documenting her toddler s battle against covid. Little aurora needed a ventilator. The good news, she is now breathing on her own and will be able to go home soon. You would think stories like these would inspire some gop governors to rethink their war on mask mandates. Just today, the superintendent of leon county school district in florida announced he will defy governor desantis ban on mask mandates. This comes after governor desantis promised to make good on his promise to withhold paychecks. The state says two school districts must rescind its mandates by this weekend or lose out on pay. This morning on fox news, the u. S. Surgeon general pushed back a
Republicans, returning to the lone star state this week after a monthlong selfexile to protest the suppression that is now the law of their land. Meanwhile, the white house continues to weather the political fallout caused by the chaos in afghanistan. And with the utility of our nation s longest war still in question, i ll ask one advocate what america s black veterans are feeling as they watch the country remade in the taliban s image again. We begin tonight with the vote. As always, the perfect guest. Joining me now, alabama congresswoman terri sewell, a democrat, and cochair of the congressional voting rights caucus. Congresswoman sewell, thank you, first of all, for joining us tonight. As i just said, we couldn t ask for a better guest to lead us off. Earlier this week in front of the edmund pettus bridge in selma, you introduced h. R. 4, john lewis advancement act in the house. The idea here being that because the lewis act focuses on reauthorizing key aspects of the voting rights
Passengers departing per day. That s the pentagon briefing last night, 155 of them are americans. You can see what that looks like for them, people trying to get anywhere other than afghanistan. The pentagon confirming a body found inside the wheel well of the plane when it was landing in qatar. President biden is back in camp david today, returning to the white house tonight according to aides, jake sullivan defending the administration s withdrawing decisions. The images of the past couple of days at the airport had been heartbreaking. The taliban is basically in charge with the eyes of the world very much upon it. They are doing something that according to analysts look like a pr campaign. This is a group committed the worse atrocity specifically women and girls over the years. They are now saying, i emphasized, saying, they are going to respect women s right. We begin with katty kay. Katty, we are a few days in do this and everyone is starting to absorb the process of difficult hum
Democrats who brought their fight to washington will tell us exactly what they want from congress. And days after being arrested at a voting rights protest, congresswoman joyce beatty, chair of the congressional black caucus, is here to tell us about the good trouble she got into. I m jonathan capehart, and this is the sunday show. This sunday, texas house democrats are still here in washington, denying the republicans back home the quorum they need to pass yet another slew of voting restrictions and begging congress to act to protect the access to the ballot in the lone star state and beyond. Complicating matters? three of the texans all fully vaccinated, have tested positive for covid and are quarantining. One state representative, seal i can t israel, has no regrets, noting in a statement, quote, i hope this intense highlights the sacrifices we re willing to make for the cause of democracy. Earlier i spoke with house majority whip james clyburn of south carolina about what congress