there's a direct line between the efforts three shelby and those that are now permitted post shelby. >> mister greenbaum, you note in your written testimony that an overlooked effect of the shelby county decision is to reduce appointments under section 8 of the vraa. instead the doj is relying to ensure jurisdictions with a history of discrimination conduct in the election process and to conduct the election process in a fair manner that does not disenfranchiseminority voters . can you explain the difference between these monitors and what impact the reduction in full-fledged observance and efficacy of voting rights enforcement? >> thank you chair. there's a dramatic difference . federal observers have a federal right to observe each step of the voting process to make sure that not, but it's nondiscriminatory and fair to all voters. it's a very powerful in terms of preventing discrimination in the lead up to the election on election day and when i was at the department of justice and i saw that in practice. post shelby county when doj sends monitors to the polls, those monitors do no

there is a direct line between the effort pre-shelby and those that are now permitted post-shelby. >> thank you. you note in your written testimony that an often overlooked side effect of the decision is to reduce the number of appointments under section 8 of the vra. instead, they have relied on so-called managers to ensure jurisdictions with a history of discrimination conduct the election process in a fair manner as to not disenfranchise minority voters. can you explain the difference between these monitors and observers and what impact the reduction in observers has had on the efficacy of voting rights enforcement? >> thank you, chairman nadler. there is a dramatic difference. federal observers have a federal right to observe each step of the voting process to make sure that it is nondiscriminatory and fair to all voters. it is very powerful in terms of preventing any discrimination at the polls in the lead up to the election and on election day. when i was at the department of justice, i saw that in practice. post-shelby county, those monitors do not have a right to be there. if

we were litigating cases well before shelby county versus holder and continued to do so after shelby county released a -- an onslaught of attacks. we saw literally the day of the decision states that were previously covered under section 5 resurrecting the same laws that the federal government had said were discriminatory and putting them into effect. if that doesn't indicate the willingness of too many jurisdictions in our country to knowingly implement laws that they know will discriminate against american voters, then i don't know what other proof we need. and so there is a direct line between the efforts preshelby and those permitted post shelby. >> thank you. mr. greenbaum, you note in your written testimony that an oft overlooked side effect of the shelby county decision is section 8 of the vra. instead, the doj has relied on so-called management to ensure jurisdictions with the history of discrimination, the election process and conduct the election process in a fair manner that does not disenfranchise minority voters. can you explain the difference between these monitors and

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chairman. >> thank you, chairman leahy and senator shelby for calling this hearing. i want to welcome our guests. thanks fog being here. i know, secretary austin, this is your first appearance before the full senate appropriations committee. welcome. general milley, you have appeared before the defense subcommittee many times, welcome back. as our adversaries continue to inn skres in new capabilities the united states' decisive military advantage is not assured. today i'm interested in hearing more about how the department's emphasis on innovation and meeting the challenge from our top adversaries including china and russia has directly impacted this defense spending proposal. while we are likely to hear a lot of debate today on what the total defense budget ought to be it is not up to our witnesses to figure that out. where secretary austin and general milley can be helpful for this committee is with the question of whether we're getting the best bang for the taxpayer buck. in my brief time as the chairman of the defense appropriations i have seen troubling signs th

shelby, thanks so much, we're just right at a time, but if you keep the line, we'll keep talking after the broadcast for a few minutes more thoughts. okay, it's good. that's great to have you on the program. shelby sullivan. bennett's defense counsel to guantanamo bay, detainees live from cuba at this hour. thank shelby. okay, that is our lot for an hour, but our programs are just beginning. stay close. ah ah ah, you know all the way with a potential solution, the voice of the i jeopardize you're saying you're going to be one of them. some push has a few more up to to closer to finish. huge rather than functional choice on that. and you folks to these nish, it works and he's going to hear the news push. this is a little because me, you were issued by me. that was i just world war 2 ended almost 75 years ago. but thousands went missing in action. lost in the woods seas and in swamps their families never knew what happened to them. many are still waiting for loved ones to return from the war and a dedicated few. still taking lost soldiers, home garage there be a whole new addition to sou

since the shelby county decision terrapin asince the shelby counn terrapin a slew of voting law changes that have made it difficult for black and latin texans to vote. it is an example of why congress must act now. i provided numerous examples of racially discriminate between in texas to this committee previously in january 2019. the committee of the judiciary, the select subcommittee on the coronavirus and sever 2020 and in the testimony submitted today i have testimonies that focus on a particularly troubling trend which you heard from my fellow panelist. in texas we have seen far more pulling places close then in any other state. these closures have disproportionately impacted. these closures have occurred under republican and democrat, which underscores the need for a federal investigation. on top of all of that, if not for brave bull workers working bull workers working decorum on may 31 of this year texas would have a new law restricting access. the fight is far from over. texas governor greg abbott as promised to call a special session. sb7 will restrict early voting powers, priv

since the shelby decision, jurisdictions are -- at alarming speed. we documented the trend in our report, analyzing polling place closures in 757 counties once covered under section five. i would like to introduce the report into the hearing record. chair. butterfield: unless there is objection, the report is received. ms. mccurdy: shockingly, we found 1688 pulling close -- polling places were closed between 2012 and 2018. texas alone closed 750 polling places, arizona 320, and georgia 214. louisiana, mississippi, alabama, and north carolina combined closed over 300. many are happening in communities of color rather than majority white neighborhoods, and in many instances, officials provided no notice that voting precincts were closed or re--- relocated. in an extreme example, local policymakers in seven counties in the state with just one polling place to serve thousands of people over hundreds of square miles. this is patently unacceptable, especially with those viewed as -- against america's history to prevent black americans to vote. to make sure

chairman. >> thank you chairman and senator shelby for calling the hearing thank you for being here i know secretary austin this is your first appearance before the senate appropriations committee welcome general you have appeared before several times. welcome back as our adversaries can invest in new capabilities with that decisive advantage so today i'm interested hearing how meeting the challenge from our top adversaries including china and russia has directly impacted the defense spending proposal we are likely to hear debate on the total defense budget ought to be but it's not up to our witnesses to figure that out secretary austin in general nelly could be helpful to this debate is the question if we get the best bang for the buck. in my brief time as defense chairman appropriations i have seen signs this is not the case and with the appropriations committee are reviewing procedures about getting our troops what they need to do to do their jobs at the right time so they can be successful. to that end support for us to understand the financial impacts to pull from afghanistan tho

the shelby county decision eliminated critical tools for protecting voting rights. as the president has said, we need congress to pass as one -- s1, the john lewis voting rights act, which would provide the department with the tools and needs. we will also partner with other federal agencies to combat election just information that potentially tries to suppress the vote. finally, we have not been blind to the dramatic increase in menacing and violent threats against all manner of state and local election workers. ranging from the highest administrators to volunteer poll workers. such threats undermine our electoral process and violate a myriad of federal laws. the criminal section of the civil rights division, together with the departments national security and criminal justice -- criminal divisions, 93 u.s. states attorneys and the fbi will investigate and promptly prosecute any violations of federal law. nearly 2.5 centuries into our experiment of government of the people, by the people, for the people, we have learned much about what supports a healthy democracy.

joining me now shelby steele senior fellow at the hoover institute and author of shame.ank you. >> ben: i really am so frustrated by the way the left has advanced critical race theory in recent years. you know it's a recurring issue that has become something that's now being backed by the heights of power. you know, the biggest corporations out there, major tech firms and the like all circle around this very toxic and in my view unamerican idea. what can be done to push back against this and how can parents stand up in their communities where they see critical race theory being something that is now part of the curriculums to indoctrinate their young children? >> well, i think they have to begin with the understanding that critical race theory is a device designed to capture white guilt. it has no other meaning, no other purpose, no other function than that. it wants to capture, to once again accuse whites of racism. you look at the language, systemic racism. structural racism, racism is not just an isolated incident. it's a structural systemic society wide problem and t

since the shelby decision, they are closing polls at an alarming speed.the education fund documented our report. when analyzing 757 counties, once covered under section five. i would like to enter this into the record. >> correct. unless there is objection, the report is received. >> shockingly, we found 1688 polling places were closed between 2012 and 2018. overall texas alone closed 787 voting places. georgia closed 214. louisiana, mississippi, north carolina closed over 300 polls. many of these closures are happening in communities of color rather than in majority white neighborhoods. in many instances, officials provided no notice to voters that their voting precincts were closed or relocated. not surprisingly, georgia closed a higher percentage of polling places than any other state in 2018. in an extreme example, 11 places had just one polling place to serve thousands of people over hundreds of square miles. this is patently unacceptable. and particularly with the persistent history of denying the right to vote to black americans. before that, they

since the shelby decision, it has been increasingly harmed by closing voting sites. financial barriers to voting and a lack of transparency and a lack of transparency in voting law changes amongst many other voter suppression tactics. this forces people to travel long distances to register and there are other measures that professor herron discussed. we saw in november 2020, with that access to early we can voting was crucial and it was in georgia that voters of color participated in souls to the polls and we can voting at a higher percentage than white voters. we have also advanced projects and have been engaged in trying to expand access to the ballot in 2020 and are now challenging laws that are seeking to rollback access in 2021. in the civil rights division voting section, i must say that litigation is not enough. it will not address the assault on the right to vote. we have returned to the peaceful litigation that does not address the systemic problem. congress must pass legislation that addresses burden on voters of color accessing the right to vote, which req

in 2013 the shelby county decision effectively eliminated the preclearance protections of the voting rights act which had been the department's most effective tool to protect voting rights over the past half-century. since that opinion there has been a dramatic rise in legislative efforts that will make it harder for millions of citizens to cast a vote that counts. so far this year at least 14 states have passed new laws that make it harder to vote and some jurisdictions based on this information have utilized abnormal postelection audit methodologies that may put the integrity of the voting process at risk and undermine public confidence in our democracy. the civil rights division has already sent a letter expressing his concern that one of those audits may violate provisions of the civil rights act and that require election officials to safeguard federal election records and the very same provisions that form the original basis for the department 1960 investigation in the linda case. the division expressed concern that the audit may violate the provision of the voting rights acts t

go ahead, senator shelby. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr.ecretary, president biden cancelled the keystone pipeline, eliminating thousands of good-paying jobs here in america. yet in a recent meeting with your russian counterpart, you backed down on sanctioning a russian corporation constructing the nord stream pipeline to germany. my question is this, mr. secretary. what kind of mixed message is this sending to our american people who are directly impacted by the president's decision to eliminate their jobs on the keystone pipeline here in america? in other words, how do you explain to unemployed keystone pipeline workers that russians' gains from the pipeline are justified but gains to the united states and american workers from the keystone pipeline are not? i understand the pipeline also helps germany. i understand it's about 90% finished and so forth. but how does that help american workers? could you explain? >> thank you. i can't speak to keystone itself. that was -- those decisions are at the white house. but let me address nord strea

(read on well earlier i spoke to shelbi, an environmental youtuber, who's been on what she calls �*ae got to ask you what attracted you to rummaging through trash? i personally have been environmentalist for over ten years now and realised that corporations themselves are incredibly wasteful and i just wanted to expose them for that, so i decided to do it the best way i knew how, showing it through video. what did you find? so many things but some of the most shocking things was food that was perfectly edible that instead of donating it to people who could have years that fit and stopping it from going to waste, they send it to landfill. things like freshly baked cookies, perfectly good projects, make up that had not been touched. all kinds of stuff. you change your behaviour massively, didn't you? idid. back when i was in high school, i called myself a baby environmentalist shelbi back then but i was what i was referred to as a hyper consumer, i never repeated an outfit and if you know anything about the world of fast fashion, it has an incredibly large environmental footprint and w

ever since the shelby county decision the voting rights act has been a metropuch less power tool. this will tell us whether the voting rights act is a tool left at all in its current form. >> well, this is john roberts' problem here for democrats, too, who democrats depend on as more of a swing vote than he was in the past, he's been clear where he is on voting rights. >> he is the author of the shelby county decision. the shelby county decision was when ruth bader ginsburg was still on the supreme court this is a different court, a court with gorsuch, amy coney barrett, three republican appointees plus clarence thomas plus samuel alito. even if john roberts were to join the three remaining liberals, there's not five votes for the moderation that democrats hope for. >> a very interesting point. i will say thank you for your "star trek" analnalogy. i found it illustrative. >> we were skeptical. >> i was initially. he turned me around. >> i'm not even a trekkie but it deals with a system you can't win in. there's no way to succeed unless you change the rules. >> you have to break th

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he's seen citizens united, shelby county, partisan gerrymandering, purging voting rolls. he's seen it all, and he says what he thinks he needs to say. hopefully this is the precursor to the announcement i think we're all hoping that stephen breyer will make here, and that that happens, whatever he said last night is fine with me. >> yikes. >> i would just add to that a few things. i think justice breyer has to wake up every day and go to work with the court. if he thinks it was irredeemable and there was no chance for him to get his colleagues' votes, it'd be hard to go to work. if it's true, however, the public actually believes the current court is apolitical and represents everyone's interests equally, it represents a real failure of progressive organizers and media to accurately convey what the court is doing and what is happening. so if that's a challenge he is inviting, right, then we should be up to the challenge. finally, i think there is a way you can read his remarks as, in some ways, an invitation to his conservative colleagues to not do all of the crazy things

shelby houlihan joins us live in a moment on "america's newsroom." here is harris.g the separate remarks from president biden and russian president putin after their high-stakes meeting going on right now. hour by hour we'll get closer to hearing from them. former secretary of state mike pompeo says biden's failure to appear with putin side-by-side with reporters after their talk shows enormous weakness. general jack keane will be with me. red hot controversy over critical race theory. virginia's democratic candidate for governor says it is a right wing conspiracy theory. really? "the faulkner focus" top of the hour. because home values have climbed to all time highs. and so has your equity. turn it into cash now, while mortgage rates are near all time lows. the newday 100 va cash out loan lets you borrow up to 100% of your home's value. you could take out more than $50,000. use it to improve your home. pay off high rate debt. pay for big expenses. or put it in the bank for real peace of mind. now's the time to use your va home loan benefit to get cash before mortga

yet, that discriminatory law was in effect from when shelby county was decided until the 2016

back before this roberts' court decision in shelby county. the way it worked was states had to tell the department of justice what they wanted to do. and then, the department of justice had to approve it. preclearance is what it was called. without the formula that allows the doj to decide which states and which counties to apply preclearance to, it all basically fell apart. so now, they are relying on section two. which flips the burdens. which basically says that the department of justice, or whoever's filing suit, has to prove that there was a discriminatory intent inside the law. now, if the supreme court narrows and restricts that further, that will make it much harder for the doj. which is really leaning on section two in the georgia case. to say that -- to be able to go to court and say that we can show you that this is discriminatory because of x, y, and z. if the supreme court narrows that, it's going to be tough for the -- the strategy that garland has laid out to really be effective. if they don't have weapon, they don't really hav

shelby he'd been born in ireland and when he came to america, he went to california as a 49er in the goldfields and december of 1855. he married louisa gibson, who was the youngest daughter of a well to do saint louis family. they had two sons one of whom died during the war is very young child and they had a daughter elizabeth in 1861 now after the war his life and his career get a little bit more hazy. he was supposedly a member of the james younger gang, although he was a city boy, so it didn't really fit the mantra of some of the other members, but he did know john jarrett who served as a captain under shelby and had a james connection. so that's probably who made that connection there. he was believed to have been one of those involved in the killing of a pinkerton agent who was investigating the jameses and he was identified as one who participated in numerous numerous robberies through the first half the 1870s he and his wife. however in 1870s had had a farm in, missouri. and two more suns were born in the beginning of that decade to the family according to family history, tho

keep up the fight that she waged so in particular in the context of voting rights as i mentioned shelby county and that is in my view a dissent for the ages just a really extraordinary force that decimates the majority opinion and points out how crucially important having a rigorous infrastructure in place to protect voting rights is, in that case she dissented for those who don't know the supreme court effectively guiding the clearance requirements the stop laws, of voting changes going into effect and covered jurisdictions i have history of voting discrimination based on race and that voting rights act is no longer in operation and she writes explaining all the reasons why this is profoundly misguided and this is something that were seen play out in real life, there is also a discriminationcr cases including reproductive rights case and this is also an area where she thought the court was anything moving backward and she talked time and again, how important reproductive freedom was to women's ability to control their own destiny so i think by including these it was her way of saying t

>> well, look, you mentioned shelby, poppy. the john lewis voting rights act does address -- >> it restores, of course. >> it's a remedy. why aren't they focusing on the john lewis voting rights act? i voted in 2006 to reauthorize the voting rights act of 1965. we had overwhelming bipartisan support to do so. i do believe that republicans would be in a very difficult position voting against that legislation. look, the for the people act, it's overly broad. it misses the mark. it was written as a messaging bill, really doesn't address many of the issues, i think be, that we're debating in this country right now as it relates to some of these state legislatures. how does publicly finance congressional campaigns address what's going on in texas? it really doesn't as far as i'm concerned. i think they need to refocus. >> we'll see. i mean, we'll see if the smaller john lewis act can even get republican votes given what we've heard from the senate minority leader mitch mcconnell because you know his position on many of these things.

>> reporter: hi, ana, distance runner shelby hoolihan considered by some to be a contender for a medal from the sport. she insists it was from pork b burrito. the ban was upheld. a decision that was completely unfair, she calls it. >> i feel completely devastated, lost, broken, angry. confused and betrayed. by the very sport that i've loved and poured myself into just to see how good i was. >> reporter: she was going to be allowed to compete at the olympic trials later today because her case is in the appeal process. at least that's what usa track and field said but hours later the u.s. olympic committee stepped in and said they would follow anti-doping rules and uphold the ban meaning she can't run in the trials giving her almost no chance at making the olympic team. shelby said she did everything she could to prove her innocence including passing a polygraph test but it didn't change regulators' minds. now she might be out of chances to return to the olympics for a second time, ana. >> what a story. >>> all right, all right, all right. channelling my best matthew mcconaughey there. a

the banned american runner shelby houlihan is blaming her failed drugs test on a burrito. steroid nandrolone. houlihan says she ate the pork meal the night before her test. chris froome will ride in this month's tour de france. the four time champion captains the "isreal start up nation" team, but isn't expected to try to win as he continues his recovery from a huge crash two years ago, in which he suffered multiple fractures. well, after that speed through the rest of the sport, let's get back to john at wembley. many thanks indeed. a reminder that alongside the euros this summer, the cop of america is running this summer. it's been removed from argentina and colombia, they were stripped from the tournament and it's being staged in brazil, also delayed a year because of the coronavirus pandemic. it was argentina who got us under way last night against chile, and there was a really moving tribute to the diego maradona, who died last year at the age of 60 just before kick—off. he was remembered with a stunning lecture with a holographic version of the 1986 winter performing

shelby houlihan is the american recordholder in th 1500 and 5,000 meters..s. trials, and ruled out for the paris games in 2024. >>> 65 seconds on a race to the finish we're just hours away from president biden's high-stakes summit with the russian president vladimir putin in geneva, switzerland. it's mr. biden's biggest test yet on the world stage as he rounds out his first overseas trip. >>> california was the first state to shut down during the pandemic, and now is among the last to fully reopen at the stroke of midnight this morning, california ditched most of its covid restrictions. >>> and the cdc is now calling the delta covid strain a variant of concern delta now accounts for 10% of new cases in america and now you know the news for this tuesday, june the 15th, 2021 i'm shepard smith. we'd appreciate it if you'd follow us on instagram and twi twitter @the news on cnbc. >>> it is 5:00 a.m. on cnbc. here's your top five@5 the fed decision, labor shorts 'will the fed give a hint when they will make a move on interest rates >>> in geneva, president biden

eight years ago today, the supreme court issued the decision in shelby county versus holder. prior to that decision, the justice department had an invaluable tool it could use to protect voters from discrimination. section five of the voting rights act. under that section, any change with respect to voting in a covered jurisdiction could not be enforced unless a jurisdiction first proved to the justice department or to the united states district court for the district of columbia, that the proposed change did not deny the right to vote on account of race, color or membership in a language minority group. using that tool, the department prevented over 175 proposed election laws across georgia from being implemented because they failed the statutory test. if georgia had still been covered by section five, it is likely that sb-202 would never have taken effect. we urge congress to restore this invaluable tool. i will now turn the podium over to chrissin clark who will tell you more about our filing in the united states versus georgia. >> thank you, attorney general garland. two

the shelby county division eliminated critical tools for protecting voting rights. and, as the president has said, we need congress to pass one voting rights act which would provide the department with the tools it needs. we will also partner with other federal agencies to combat election information that potentially tries to suppress the vote. finally, we have not been blind to the dramatic increase in menacing and violent threats against all manner of state and local election workers, ranging from the highest administrators to poll workers. it undermines our process and violates several laws. the criminal division of the civil rights division, as well as the department of security and criminal divisions, the 93 united states attorneys and the fbi will investigate and promptly prosecute any violations of federal law. nearly two and a half centuries into our experiment of government of the people, by the people, for the people, we have learned much about what supports a healthy democracy. we know that expanding the ability of all eligible citizens to vote is the cen

i mean, the -- the -- the fact that this was on the anniversary of the shelby county decision. the, sort of, infamous decision by the roberts' court to gut another section of the voting rights act. the preclearance. garland made reference to that, actually, in his address today. >> that's absolutely right, chris. what attorney general merrick garland said was that, if john roberts had not gutted the voting-rights act, this georgia law would have been blocked, in the first place. remember, that section 5 of the voting rights act blocked 2,000 discriminatory voting changes, from 1965 to 2013. then, john roberts says, in 2013, eight years ago today, that things have changed, dramatically, in the country. well, they have changed, dramatically. dramatically, for the worst. because we published a new analysis in "mother jones" today that found that 26 states have enacted new voter-suppression laws since the shelby county decision. so, john roberts says voting discrimination is largely a thing of the past. then, what do republican-controlled states do? they start discriminating on the

this is katy boyd brit, a former staff to richard shelby who received shelby's endorsement after enteringcongressman ted bud and expected mark walker and former governor pat mcrory would jump out, that that would be their time to back out and say we can't do this without a trump endorsement. that hasn't happened yet. very much involved in the campaign. it's not having the profound effect he would like it to and it's happening against the backdrop of 2024. he's testing out his ability to be a pingmaker and to have influence over the party and we're seeing the impact of that. >> testing out his ability to be a kingmaker and mitch mcconnell is testing and preparing for when he has to get involved, essentially opposing the former president. listen. >> the states that are going to determine who's in the majority at that time, you have to appeal to the general election audience, and some of the candidates who are this these primaries clearly aren't. i'll be keeping an eye on that. hopefully we won't have to intervene, but if we do, we will. >> translate a bit more there, he's talking about the

as for shelby malone she is healthy and happy living with her girlfriend, courtney, and encouraged bye, i don't care. i just really don't want to lose you because she finally got to the point where she learned that it was either accept me or lose me. >> and a big thanks to my colleague nbc aaron gilcrest for that report. i want to leave you with the number for the trover project which provides trained counselors for lgbtq youth. if you're a young person and you need a safe space or a welcoming ear to talk to, call the trevor lifeline at 1-866-488-7386. i will tweet that out, as well. share that number with people around you who may need it. >>> well, the delta variant of the coronavirus poses such a serious threat that the world health organization is urging everyone and i mean everyone to keep wearing masks even if you're fully vaccinated. coming up next, where this deadly variant is wreaking havoc and a look at how delta's new mutation is making global experts cautious in the pandemic. ng around♪ welcome back, america. it sure is good to see you. good morning, mr. sun. good morning,

but i think ultimately, from decisions that he has joined in, in shelby county, in heller, whether it's on gun rights or voting rights, he is more of an extremist than his appearances would let on. he's not as bad as some of the others. he tries his best to join a liberal majority on occasion when he sees the possibility that he might agree with it. but in general, we have a court that is filled with people who got there because of questionable parts of our past history, those presidents put them into office, and they otherwise would not have been there. >> james is next, from auburn, washington, he says the court is about right in his mind. why, james? >> caller: yes, i say it's about right because the simple fact is, the supreme court, nothing is right and nothing is wrong, no decision anyone makes. abortion could be legal or it could be illegal. we had the dred scott decision. what i'm trying to say is, the court is not based on law. it's based on simply what the judges' ideology is. if they don't believe in abortion, if they're conservative, this is what the republicans do, and this

eight years ago today, the supreme court issued the decision in shelby county vs. holder.rior to that decision, the justice department had an invaluable tool it could use to protect voters from discrimination, section 5 of the voting rights act. under that section, any change with respect to voting in a covered jurisdiction could not be enforced unless the jurisdiction first proved to the justice department or to the united states district court for the district of columbia that the proposed change did not deny or abridge the right to vote on account of race, color, or membership in a language minority group. using that tool, it from being implemented across georgia because they failed the statutory test. if georgia had still been covered by section 5, it is likely that s.b. 202 would never have taken effect. we urge congress to restore this invaluable tool. i will now turn the podium over to kristen clarke, who will tell you more about our filing in the united states vs. georgia. ms. clarke: thank you, attorney general garland. two weeks ago, you made clear that the depar

he was general shelby's adjunct during the war and after the war he helped found the "times."federates were ban issued from holding office at the end of the war and he tried to reverse that. he use it his newspaper to provide alibis and excuses for the james brothers. he made them out to be striking back against perceived corruption and graft and the criminality of republican rule in missouri and he created a folk hero status for them. when jesse was killed in 1882, edward wrote a flattering obituary and he arranged for frank james to be able to surrender to the governor. he didn't know he would be fully acquitted but without too much backlash there. his flattering treatment of jesse james undoubtedly formed the basis of the heroic legend still associated with the outlaw. part of the obituary reads, no one faced the outlaw, one against 20 until he disarmed his and turned his back to his assassin, the first and only time in a career that passed from the realms of an almost fabulous romance into that of history. we call him outlaw, and he was, but fate made him so. later he cont

. >>> an american runner with eyes on the olympics is now facing a four year ban from the sport shelbyanabolic steroid in september she said a burrito was to blame. she said nandralone is found in pork she had a pork burrito hours before the test. she says she has never taken steroids. >>> comfort animals are important for people we have the story. >> facing our fears on the shores of lake samamish. hard to believe the number one fear is still public speaking, more so than death itself. not far behind still on the podium is the very real fear called tripanaphobia one in five are deathly afraid of needles perhaps it is the syringes that keep people from wanting to consider the vaccine it's the vaccine here. our fear of needles can't compete with our love of dogs. >> well, wrigley's 4 years old i got him when he was a pup. he's an awesome dog. >> so awesome. i can't describe it but it was just awesome to see a dog sit in front of a young man that was having trouble and they both got on the same page and they comforted each other and were able to get that shot. >> my first maskless kiss i