shelby and berkowitz. one of the things i find especially disturbing about the brain of edge case is it really flies in the face of congressional intent, by the court's decision, that case, adding a whole new set of factors that courts are supposed to consider that none of that appears in the statute itself. none of it appears in the congressional history in 1982. and it flies in the face of what this body did in 1982 to try to eradicate discrimination voting. it actually -- there are aspects of that decision that seemed to almost encourage jurisdictions to move forward with mechanisms that are discriminatory. it is a tremendous concern. thank you. sen. hirono: that is exactly what happened. justice alito, who is a justice that signals certain things that he would like to revisit, but writing in that case, which i find astounding. because he creates -- i think he rights laws, he creates what he calls a nonexhaustive list of guideposts for section two cases, including the size of the burden imposed by chall

shelby and berkowitz. one of the things i find especially disturbing about the brain of edge case is it really flies in the face of congressional intent, by the court's decision, that case, adding a whole new set of factors that courts are supposed to consider that none of that appears in the statute itself. none of it appears in the congressional history in 1982. and it flies in the face of what this body did in 1982 to try to eradicate discrimination voting. it actually -- there are aspects of that decision that seemed to almost encourage jurisdictions to move forward with mechanisms that are discriminatory. it is a tremendous concern. thank you. sen. hirono: that is exactly what happened. justice alito, who is a justice that signals certain things that he would like to revisit, but writing in that case, which i find astounding. because he creates -- i think he rights laws, he creates what he calls a nonexhaustive list of guideposts for section two cases, including the size of the burden imposed by chall

in shelby county beholder, the majority -- in shelby county cannot rely on the passing of the voting rights to the supreme court's critique. you agree that is relevant to the current conditions that this year there have been rolled back of voting rights and 31 of them have been decided into law. i also think these hearings that congress has been conducting since 2019 are important because they provided an opportunity for congress to hear about those conditions across the country. the bill also provides stronger protection for native americans and alaskan american voters which is important. there are also a number of other things. thank you very much. do you agree -- i know you are familiar with the freedom to vote act and we know john was -- some states have already passed rules for this year. would you agree that in order to protect americans rights about congress must pass both john's and the freedom to vote act? >> thank you. we welcome the opportunity to work with congress and other ways that may strengthen voting rights in our country. >> i was listening to senator lee's questio

there's still a challenge that the supreme court did not get it right in shelby. is there evidence to back up the fact that we are still facing threats that is at the heart of the civil rights of america? >> thank you very much for that question and absolutely, yes. there is overwhelming evidence. in the record for this congress, of an ongoing, persistent and growing threat of discrimination threatening the rights to vote of many, many americans. i mentioned already that we are facing a huge surge and legislative efforts to restrict access to voting access across the country. it's the biggest push since reconstruction. we are also seeing an increase in successful litigation across the country as the jurisdictions are -- voting restrictions upon voting restrictions. these are precisely the reasons why the constitution gives congress the power under the 14th and 15th amendment to protect the right to vote from discrimination to put in place measures to deter and remedy discrimination and voting and enforce the constitution guaranteeing equal voting rights. >> you've

there is still a challenge that the supreme court did not get it right in shelby. is there evidence to back up the fact that we are still facing threats of civil rights in america? >> thank you. and absolutely, yes. there is overwhelming evidence. there is ongoing, persistent, growing threat of discrimination threatening the rights to vote as many americans. i mentioned that we are facing a huge surge in legislation efforts to restrict voting access across the country. it's the biggest push since reconstruction. we also see and increase in successful litigation across the country as the voting restrictions are piled on top of each other. this is why the constitution gives congress the power to protect the right to vote from discrimination, to put in place measures and enforce the guarantee of equal voting rights. >> you have heard statements made by the other witnesses. it seems to be an echo of the argument of states rights that has been used historically as a justification for discrimination, or at least for the government to take its hands off of state matters.

it was one of the lowest moments of the supreme court and recent memory, the shelby decision. and now because of that shelby decision 202119 states just in this year, 2021, have enacted 33 loss of a limit americans access to the ballot according to the brennan center for justice at new york university. what we are seeing across the states it is nothing short of jim crow in the 21st century. aided, abetted, and allowed by the shelby decision which is soct tied the hands of the justice department when discriminatory legislation was being enacted at the state level. the senate must fight back. we must restore the preclearance provisions of the voting rights act. and tailor it to meet the 21st --vo make the challenges of thet century. that is with the john lewis voting rights advancement will do as an important complement to the freedom to vote acts it will reestablish the preclearance coverage formula based on an updated robust catalog of modern-day voter suppression laws. while adapting new provisions to address the next generation of suppressive voting. this new bill also respo

because in 2013 the supreme court issued its 5-4 decision shelby county vs. holder. that section 5 required localities with records of discrimination against voters of color through racist policies like poll taxes and literary tests to ensure any changes to rules were vetted by the justice department before they could be enforced. this requirement is known simply as preclearance and applied to redistricting. but that preclearance requirement, the guarantee of accountability to the voters and adherence to the law is by the supreme court and shelby. as today's witness assistant attorney general clark has explained, in the absence of a preclearance requirement, jurisdictions have less incentive to involve community contacts in the elections process and the process of considering adopting voting changes. losing this avenue of participation is particularly harmful for minority voters. americans have every reason to be concerned about the lack of transparency. without full protection state legislators could redraw districts in ways that can unlawfully diminish power. and t

the supreme court 2013 shelby county versus holder ruling suspended the preclearance process.liminating the justice department single most powerful and effective tool for protecting the right to vote. before shelby, the clearance process enabled the department to swiftly block the implementation of many discriminatory and unconstitutional practices. through section five, the department blocked over 3000 voting changes helping protect the rights of millions of citizens. in over 60%, there was evidence of discrimination. too many jurisdictions have viewed the ruling as an invitation to adopt rules that disadvantaged minority voters. today, jurisdictions that want to restrict voting rights have with the supreme court memorably described the advantage of time and inertia. these new laws can be challenged only through long protracted resource intensive case-by-case negation which we have pursued in states like texas and north carolina. we are on the cusp of another potentially transformational moment. a new redistricting cycle has commenced. census numbers show the u.s. has become

it was proposed in direct response to the supreme court decision of shelby county. that case recognized that the landscape in america looks very different in 2013 than in 1965, when the voting rights act was passed. and the supreme court concluded that congress could not keep requiring states to preclear with federal election law changes based on data going back to 1965. fast forward, then, eight years, and the supreme court again issued a decision, this time in brnovich v. democratic national committee. in this case, the supreme court lacked a substantive guidepost to determine whether considering the totality of the circumstances, changes to the voting rules are lawful under section two of the voting rights act. unsurprisingly, democrats immediately set about revising this bill to overrule the supreme courts common sense decision. the latest version does not just revive the preclearance procedures in place before shelby county. it massively expands preclearance. democrats also want to erase the very reasonable factors that the court outlined in brnovich, to guide

this will be the first redistricting cycle where it was not in effect. >> more on that shelby case and the redistricting. the assistant attorney general. spoke in a recent senate hearing on that case. this is what she had to >> we are on the cusp of a transformational moment. a new redistricting cycle has commenced. numbers show the u.s. is becoming an increasingly diverse nation with population growth attributable to increases in the number of people of color. absent congressional action would be the first in half a century without the full protection of the voting rights act. jurisdictions might be poised to dilute the increased minority voting strength that has resulted from these natural demographic changes. without preclearance, the justice department will have limited tools to obtain documents and assess where voting rights are being restricted, hampering enforcement efforts. >> i can go to november of this year when virginia and new jersey have elections this november. typically, they would we district on time in early 2021. they would give their data particularly early. the dat

and in the case that was brought up to the supreme court, shelby vs. holder, the supreme court held, in an opinion by chief justice jobts, that -- justice roberts, that you could not apply a 1960's formula using vote numbers from 50 years ago in the context of post-2010 reality. so they vacated and set a i side, rejected, the trigger formula in section 4. i'm sorry, my voice hasn't quite come back since yesterday. we don't have the trigger in place now for section 5 and the bill in congress, h.r. 4, would essentially do that. it's trying to do that at this point in history where a number of states have enacted las that are being seen as erecting barriers to the ballot box for millions of americans. i think in this past year there have been over 400 pieces of legislation introduced and 30 laws enacted by states that would have needed for the most part to have been precleared by the justice department or federal court before they could be implemented. some states in fact enacted voter suppression laws right after the shelby case came down. and that's bee

shelby, did you always feel that way. 1960's, did you feel differently. >> oh, yes. side. i was, you know, i grew up in the civil rights movement. and i was mr. black power and i -- this idea that race is all important i had to come to terms with. it was slow evolution to sort of move from there to the realization. race is never a problem. the problems are always human you always have some sort of ulterior motive that corrupts your better intentions again i'm happy to see her make that statement. >> brian: went on to to say american history is a series of stories where white people knock us tuned stand on our necks and ask us why we are on the ground. if you don't know history reality how it was instructed i don't care if learning this makes white kids feel bad. that's torre, your reaction? >> that's horrible. he is saying but is he saying what he really means is that he wants the power to make white children feel uncomfortable racially. think about that he is saying that's our power as blacks. that's all we have got. we haven't created a computer we haven't discover

edwards dusty. shelby a. we're seeing a lot there are behind you of julianna, so i'll just supporters. they have seen plenty of full stones over the years. take us through what to head today. if you, with a 2 day hearing of the expedition hearing forward, you had now kicked off at the united states is now appealing to us a ton of money made by british george back in january, i thought to the united states. so that was a decision based primarily on the rest of the day. the pow wow. and trying to trying a new is i've already presented a not the play and a maximum security prison in the united states. and that even 2nd sentence, a that also on hearing the sound of mental and physical health isn't as bad as has been made on the drugs actually with the united states or you could actually prevent him committing suicide. extradited, interestingly though, during the day is a parent via video neg, do his el how, but the noise acting for the united states say that his health is completely adequate of the united states

and with shelby versus holder supreme court held that opinion by chief justice s,roberts and then from 50 years ago and post 2010 reality. and rejected the trigger formula. section four. my voice is not quite come back. so we don't have the trigger in place for section number five. and at this point in history a number of states and with those enacted laws to be seen as erecting barriers. but then in the past year 400 pieces of legislation have been introduced to introduced and thosert that would have needed for the most part by the justice department or the federal court to be implemented some states enacted voter suppression laws after the shelby case came down. that has been seven years. the voting rights act historically has a long record of bipartisan support every time the voting rights act is reauthorized it has been signed into law by the republican president and in the 1965 at the height of the civil rights movement and then it passes the u.s. senate with the unanimous vote of 98 / nothing. and then with bipartisan assupport and then it is a work in progress. section five up u

alabama's current senior standard or, richard shelby was elected to the senate as a democrat. and switched parties at a low point in president clinton's popularity, in the 1990s. harsh treatment from the clinton white house was one of the reasons richard shelby felt isolated as a democrat and switched parties. senator shelby has lived a tension free life since then on the republican side of the aisle, in the senate. but joe manchin's policy positions are still much more in line with a democratic party than the republican party. there is not a single republican senator who is in favor of spending one penny on the social infrastructure track of the biden bills. joe manchin is in favor of spending 1.7 five trillion dollars. and joe manchin is in favor of raising taxes, including income taxes on the rich, to pay for that package. and no republican currently serving in the united states and has ever voted for a tax increase on anything. there are reports today that congressional democrats are now rushing to reach an agreement on the biden social infrastructure bill, majority leader

the way the john lewisville fixes the shelby problem is it says, okay, starting now, we're not going to treat the south differently than anywhere else in the country the we'll treat every part of the country exactly the same. you are subject to a preclearance requirement as a state government or local government if you have had a pattern of voting rights act violations during the previous 25 years. if you had just one, there isn't enough. there has to have been a pattern and if there is a pattern of voting rights actions violations, you are subject to preclearance, you have to submit proposed electoral changes to the justice department and you have to keep doing that until you have had ten years in a row where you haven't been subjected to voting rights violations. it doesn't penalize the south. every zip code in this country, north, south, east, west, midwest is only subject to preclearance if there has been a pattern of violations, a significant pattern over the last 25 years and as soon as you're ten years without a violation, you can, quote, bail out of preclearance and you don't

shelby foote historians view him as being completely impractical and he comes up with these great ideas that couldn't possibly work but apparently you are not as sold on that idea. you don't think he was almost 11? >> this is a definite weakness of the beauregard priest these trying to sell these plans by overselling them. he acts as commander in very pragmatic. the reason i think he's a competent strategist is on the one hand while he assumes the enemy doesn't do anything he does understand the confederate are worn down and he interested what the steamboat in the rail would -- railroad bridge able to do but he said the railroad allowed you to achieve what napoleon achieved but faster. if you think about it that's what the prescience to the austrian and the french. the confederacy did not have a row road system. that being said or doesn't have as an an efficient one in that being said he favors western -- if we just pack our troops here and there and when we invade the north which beauregard is very critical of. he writes a letter and says what can we achieve by this raid? you won't tak

supreme court's decision in shelby county versus holder gutted the heart of the voting rights act, we have seen a tidal wave of measures to restrict the vote. and in just the last year surrounding the 2020 presidential election attempts to deny the franchise closely resembled the jim crow era in both intent and intensity. some of the most troubling developments have been attacks on election officials and the process itself. make no mistake, this is race discrimination changing form and adapting to circumstances up to date. it is no less egregious and no less perilous for our democracy. today i want to talk about how these threats to election administrations are ultimately about denying people their freedom to vote. first, let's look at the astonishing rise and threats against workers and their families. workers and administrators are absolutely essential to a successful democracy. no official should live in fear. yet as you've heard today, arizona secretary of state katie hobbs, commissioner schmidt and others have received death threats in connection with their jobs. a recent study b

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and then the recent, that was shelby county, as you pointed out. in the burn of its case a narrowing of what we regarded as the meaning of section two and our authority under section two. both of those can be fixed by this congress and if it was it would give us considerably greater opportunity and availability to ensure the sacred right to vote. >> didn't the supreme court make it clear that we can fix that, if congress wanted? >> that's correct, the opinions indicated that these were matters that could be fixed by the congress. host: voting rights legislation and executive action by the justice department, a topic of yesterday's hearing with the attorney general. related to this is this headline from "the washington post," wall street journal publishes a letter from trump claiming rigged election. twitter reporting that twitter may be maintaining its ban on donald trump at the former president finding other ways to get his message out, wall street journal publishing a lengthy letter to the editor from trump charging inaccurately that the letter -

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attorney general, shelby county got the rights act and followed by brenovic, comes up with guide posts. the justice department now has to prove in order to protect our right to vote. can you just tell us what the impact of the supreme court shelby county decision has been on the justice department's ability to protect our right to vote? and is there something we can do, are there tools that we can provide through congressional action to enable you to protect our right to vote? is >> yes, senator. the right to vote is fundamental pillar of american democracy. the voting rights act is one of the greatest statutes ever passed. it enabled the justice department to protect people's right to vote and go against discrimination based on race, ethnicity with patterns or practices with respect to voting. in shelby county, the most important tool we have, section five allowed free clearance by justice department or allowed the state to go to federal court to get clearance and that left us with circumstance of having to examine each case one by one with the burden on the justice department. so one

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remember, the supreme court dealt a blow to the voting rights act in the shelby county case back in 2013ey also dealt another blow to the voting rights act just this past session. and so, it's made it harder for us to prove discrimination in court, but we're still in this. we're still fighting using what's left of the voting rights act and using the constitution. but it would make it much easier if the senate would move to restore the voting rights act with the john lewis voting rights advancement act and by passing the freedom to vote act, which would give us standards for how we run elections across the country. >> sreenivasan: what to you is at stake at the core of all this? >> i don't think i'm being alarmist to say that our democracy is in peril right now. not only have we seen the weakening of voting rights laws, we saw an insurrection on january 6. we have seen an upbeat iissues and lies about the elections and the outcome of our elections, which has called into question the integrity of our elections with audits and lawsuits, etc. and we know that it's not just about the election

they had the rent a race in the late 60's, shelby gt 350 and it was the first time you could ever renta totally awesome car from a carmaker. mark fields was the ceo of ford and now he goes over to run hertz, getting it out of trouble, essentially, making this revolutionary move, but with tesla. i think it's incredible from so many different levels. amanda: it really is and we could put a pin in the valuation conversation, but the ark of the story is magnificent, in the sense that we could have said that tesla is great and had a novelty car a few years ago but big car companies will surely own the space, but maybe not. speaking of owning spaces, rogers communication's is in some turmoil here. two different men claiming to be chair of the company. two factions of the founding family say they have control of the board. here to untangle this, derek is with us. this is obviously not good for the company today, as evidenced by the stock market reaction. what is the next step in this saga? >> it looks like it is to the courts, where in british columbia they will be trying to get a judge to ag

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the shelby's eagle out in a rain forest in gonna be all was 1st identified as a species in 1872 by british to ologist. there have been no confirmed sightings since then. ah, a check of the headlines on al jazeera. the un says that fear is conflict in me and mars escalating off the reports, the military gentle sending tens of thousands of troops to the rest of north and northwest italy's former interior minister mateus l feeney is on trial for his role and walking a migrant rescue ship in 2019. he's accused of kidnapping and abuse of authority. the far right politician prevented 2 vessels from docking for days. adam brainy has more from room prosecutors in their company. civil plaintiffs have submitted a list of more than 2 dozen witnesses to testify and found their pretty high profile, ranging from the former prime minister who served above the need. that's prime minister for prime minister can say. and even on that list is actor richard year because he volunteered for a period on one of these ships and he's seen as a possible witness. we also expect to see materials having himself appeari

and that was shelby county, as you pointed out. recently in the brnovich case, a narrowing of what we recorded as the meaning of section 2 and our authorities under section 2. both of those could be fixed by this congress and if they were, it would give us considerably greater opportunity and ability to ensure the sacred right to vote. >> didn't the supreme court make it very clear that we could fix that if the congress wanted to? >> that's correct, in the opinions they indicated these were matters that could be fixed by the congress. >> hopefully they will, because i think it's very important that all americans be protected in their right to vote. in the state of vermont we take that very seriously. now, we have the bipartisan fix to stay in the crime victims fund act of 2021. it's been signed into law. a major piece of this legislation requires fund collected to be deferred and nonprosecution agreements be deposited into the criminal victims' fund which had been projected to reach a ten-year low. since this bill has become law, h

they've been gutted by the supreme court's damaging and strange shelby and brnovich decisions, but it would also provide critical protection to native american communities across the country including alaska native american communities. this would restore the justice department's powers to oversee and prevent harmful discriminatory changes to voting laws and procedures. how can anybody stand up and say, i'm a proud american, but i'm going to let some of these legislative bodies do things that will stop other americans from voting? if you're a proud american and really mean it, then you want every single american, i don't care what their political party is they should be able to vote. now, i'm working extremely hard to build bipartisan support for this bill, especially in the past few congresses it's been overwhelmingly bipartisan. i'm optimistic we can arrive at a good bipartisan compromise that can serve as a starting point for continued bipartisan discussions here in the senate. you wouldn't know it if you listened to the partisan sound bits and twitter wars of the modern media but