laws are racist, professor tolson. >> thank you for that question. so it depends.ng is treating all voter i.d. laws as the same. >> i want to move quickly, so it depends is your answer? >> yes, that is my answer. >> so what voter i.d. laws are racist? >> apologies, senator cruz, yor state of texas. i'm not saying the entire state of texas. >> you said my state of texas. you tell me about the texas voter i.d. laws that are racist. >> the fact the law was put in place to diminish the political power of latinos with racist intent and have been found to have -- >> you're asserting that. what is the evidence of that? >> the federal district court that first resolved the constitutionality of texas' voter i.d. law. >> your view is voter i.d. laws are racist. how about you, mr. yang? >> i agree with professor tolson, voter i.d. laws can be racist. >> there are some voter i.d. laws that are racially discriminatory in intent. >> joining us is the professor who brought receipts, franita tolson, vice dean of usc law school. thank you for being with us. i'm going to ask you to

laws racist, professor tolson? >> thank you for that question. so it depends.e have to stop doing is treating all voter i.d. laws as the same. >> okay, so your answer -- i want to move quickly. so it depends is your answer? >> that's my answer. >> okay, so voter i.d. laws are racist? >> apologies, mr. cruz. your state of texas, perhaps. >> okay so you think the entire state of texas is racist. what about requiring an idea to vote is racist. >> i think it's pretty reductive. i'm not saying the entire state of texas -- >> you tell me about the voter texas i.d. laws is racist in. >> the fact the voter i.d. was put into place to diminish the political power of latinos with racist intent -- >> what's your evidence for that? >> the federal district court that first resolved the constitutionality of texas' voter i.d. law. >> that's what they said. by the way if you want to hear more of what professor tolson has to say she's joining my fred mehdi hassan on his show sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern. you do not want to miss that. the best things america makes are the th

now university of southern california law professor and cnn election law analyst ber neat at that tolsonnteresting week? >> absolutely. before i get to the other interesting part, let me ask you, how concerned are you about these partisan-led audits that they continue to fuel the big lie and that the one that failed in arizona is not enough to put others potentially to bed. >> well, to say that this is alarming would be an understatement, fred. i think the fact that millions of dollars were spent to confirm what we already know, right, joe biden won arizona, it really is the fact that this causes substantial damage to the process because it pushes this false narrative. the damage is substantial. democracy works based on faith and participation, people have to believe in the system and the system has to be validated by ensuring that those that are eligible to participate can farce pate. having these fake audits undermines that process. the other states will follow suit even in states that trump won. >> what does it mean to you that even though you have this audit that did -- it was carrie

he asked usc law professor tolson whether she thinks voter i.d. laws are racist.e thing we have to stop doing is veeting owl voter i.d. laws the same. >> your answer -- i want to move quickly. it depends is your answer? >> yes. >> so what voter i.d. laws are racist? >> apologies, mr. cruz. your state of texas, perhaps. >> okay. so you think the entire state of texas is racist. what about requiring an i.d. to vote is racist? >> i think it's reductive. not the entire state of texas -- >> you said my state of texas. you tell me -- >> absolutely. so the fact that the voter i.d. law was put into place to diminish the political power of latinos with race as -- >> you are inserting that. what is your evidence? >> the federal district court that first resolved the constitutionality of texas' voter i.d. law. >> your view is voter i.d. laws are racist. how about you, mr. yang? >> i agree. voter i.d. laws can be racist. >> there are some voter i.d. laws that are racially discriminatory in intent. >> now, let's move past the shame of cruz playing cruz playing such a silly gam

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