joan biskupic is joining us now, and if it goes to the supreme court, which is what appears likely sense of what the justices will do here? >> good morning, omar. this morning the supreme court took the lead from two justices neil gorsuch and elaine kagan saying they are the only ones who can take the suits. and before rulings from naacp and others could take the suits under the voting rights act, but this particular rule prohibits the suit by race, and this is what the majority said is that congress did not exclusively give a right to private parties. for much of the last century, the courts have assumed that section 2 is privately enforceable, but the judge said, that a deeper look has revealed this assumption is resting on flimsy footing by justice david strauss who wrote for the majority and happens to be a law clerk to clarence thomas and one of donald trump's first appointees to the appellant bench, and on the other side, chief la ben ski said that rights so fundamental to citizenship should not rest solely on the discretion and the availability of the agents for protection. hi

joan biskupic, thanks so much for the update.reciate it. >> sure. >> so it is election day in america, and cnn is on the campaign trail. these are live pictures from columbus, ohio. and we're going to check in with our reporters all over the country, all over the map, where important elections are taking place to figure out what today's vote could tell us about the 202424 presidentntial electitio. stayay with cnn.n.

. >> our senior supreme court analyst, joan biskupic is here with me in "the situation room." e's got more on these late breaking developments. what's the significance, joan, of what we saw today? >> wolf, this is another chapter in the ongoing inquiry into supreme court justices off bench behavior, and if they're being influenced by wealthy conservatives. today's action traces to earlier news reports about luxury trips that mainly clarence thomas has taken on the dime of harlan crow who was one of the men who had the subpoena today, and also leonard leo, and, you know, the senate democrats, and it's a completely >> senate democrats want information from these two individuals that would let them know just what kind of activities have been going on but get to the core of whether there's any undue influence here. >> how have crow epiand leonard leo responded? >> leonard leo said senate judiciary democrats have been destroying the supreme court, now they are destroying the senate. i will not cooperate with this unlawful campaign of political retribution. and then harlan crow put o

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