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Additional black majority congressional district. in other words, it s giving more opportunities for minority voters to elect a candidate of their choice and not have the black vote diluted in congressional districts. two conservative justices sided with the three liberals. with us now to discuss cnn chief national affairs correspondent jeff zeleny and ariano deveaux. most did not expect the ruling to go that way. what happened? the maps had only one black majority district despite the fact that there s 27% blacks in the state. a lower court said that violates the voting rights act, ordered these new maps, and the state went right to the supreme court and everybody thought that this supreme court was going to really gut section 2 of the voting rights ac, and instead that s not what we got. chief justice john roberts writing for the majority. instead he left section 2 alone. ....
If they see responsible leadership. if they see leadership we can believe in. frankly that s why i think it s time for new leadership in the house. you look at some of the amazing candidates who were elected like the service veterans. abigail cia veteran, defeated one of the far-right wing republicans in congress in virginia. she s someone that people will trust to do the right thing. they know that she can make deals, but they also know she s going to stand up to the president. if they see leadership like that, we can do both. and that s why we need new leadership at the top as well. that s why i d like to see someone like marcia fudge take over for nancy pelosi. a what do you think is the strongest foot forward coming out of the box for democrats? we talked about hr 1 that s the drain the swamp bill, right? it helps restore trust in government. i can we need to look at the voting rights ac. it is amazing right now that we have a governor s race in georgia where one of the conte ....
Out of the box for democrats? we talked about hr 1 that s the drain the swamp bill, right? it helps restore trust in government. i can we need to look at the voting rights ac. it is amazing right now that we have a governor s race in georgia where one of the contest ants is trying to disenfranchise tens of thousands of voters. secretary of the state kemp. secretary of state kemp, acting as the secretary of state when he s the candidate for governor and trying to throw out a bunch of ballots and saying they don t count. down in florida, we have the republican party of florida saying that a bunch of service members ballots are not going to get counted in the senate race in the governor s race. telling service members that their votes don t count, that s what s going on in america right now. and it s happening under republican leadership. we ve got to put a stop to that because there is nothing more fundamentally american and democratic than every individual s right to vote. w ....
A longstanding agenda to change law and policy. professor rick hasan who a voter expert was writing today that one concern would be an attempt to roll back other rules in the et voter rules that make voter registration easier np process california do you share that concern. absolutely share that concern. and it s not one that we re simply speculating about. you look at what s happened in the last several years since the supreme court gutted the teeth of the federal voting rights ac. you ve seen state after state move forward with whether it s a creatively written voter id law, the reduction or elimination of early voting funts and the latest craze for them is voter list maintenance, the creative purging the voter rolls not no compliance with the fireman voter registration act. you have litigation in ohio. ....