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Speaker 1: Supreme Court rule today that states can no longer be

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Speaker 1: judged by voting discrimination that went on decades ago. This

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Speaker 1: is a decision that marks the end of a major

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Speaker 1: Civil rights era reform, the Voting Rights Act of five

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Speaker 1: to four ruling, and it rewrites a key element of

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Speaker 1: the Voting Rights Act, which for fifty years has given

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Speaker 1: the federal government unprecedented say in everything from how states

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Speaker 1: draw their congressional maps to where they place polling location.

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Speaker 1: It was all rooted in the belief that Southern states,

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Speaker 1: we're highly discriminatory against blacks, not letting them vote, not

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Speaker 1: letting them registers. So the states were totally subservient to

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Speaker 1: the federal government when it came to voting. The federal

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Speaker 1: government under this Act had the right to tell the

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Speaker 1: states everything, how they were going to draw their districting maps,

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Speaker 1: how they were going to run elections, and all that.

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Speaker 1: And the Supreme Court today just threw that out, saying

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Speaker 1: it's no longer applicable, and in fact, if anybody should

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Speaker 1: be punished for voting rights violations today should be the

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Speaker 1: Democrat Party. The Democrats created the ku Klux Klan to

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Speaker 1: keep blacks from voting Republican when that didn't work. They

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Speaker 1: created and forced the Jim Crow Laws to make it

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Speaker 1: hard firm to vote Republican. It's the Democrat Party and

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Speaker 1: agents of influence like the New Black Panthers, which now

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Speaker 1: terrorize voters in black districts. How about the fact that

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Speaker 1: Romney in fifty nine Philadelphia voting districts didn't get one vote.

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Speaker 1: Romney did not get one vote, zero folks, zero votes

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Speaker 1: in fifty nine districts. Now, if there are voting violations

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Speaker 1: taking place today, it's the Democrat Party anyway. This thing

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Speaker 1: has been thrown out now and the left is in

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Speaker 1: a tizzy. It's good news for the states are redistricted

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Speaker 1: when the GEOP took over and are being sued for

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Speaker 1: doing so. Now it's a quote Poe quote from the

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Speaker 1: Washington Time story. Beneath the legal ruling is a broader

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Speaker 1: social statement with the justice is saying that a state

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Speaker 1: cannot be perpetually held responsible for past discrimination if there's

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Speaker 1: no evidence that it still exists. I mean this cuts

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Speaker 1: right to the core of affirmative action. When affirmative action

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Speaker 1: was established, it was to make amends for past transgression.

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Speaker 1: So what it basically was we were setting up new

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Speaker 1: discrimination to deal with old discrimination, and we were calling

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Speaker 1: that a remedy. But then people like me said, okay, well,

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Speaker 1: when does this new discrimination end in the civil rights

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Speaker 1: of You said never, Affirmative action is the law of

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Speaker 1: the land and it's part of the fabric, and it's

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Speaker 1: never gonna end. Well, wait a minute, you're now punishing

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Speaker 1: people who didn't do anything. Affirmative action is punishing people

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Speaker 1: who did not and have not discriminated against anybody in

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Speaker 1: their lives. Doesn't matter. It was so bad. It was

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Speaker 1: so bad that you're gonna be making a manage for

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Speaker 1: what you did for the rest of this country's life. Well,

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Speaker 1: the Supreme Court, when it comes to the Voting Rights Act,

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Speaker 1: just said, ah, a state cannot be perpetually held responsible

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Speaker 1: for past discrimination if there's no evidence it still exists,

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Speaker 1: which ought to be the guiding principle of affirmative action.

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Speaker 1: It ought to be the case that a business or

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Speaker 1: an individual cannot be perpetually held responsible for past discrimination

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Speaker 1: if there's no evidence it's happening. Now, if there's no

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Speaker 1: evidence that it still exists. We go to the audio

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Speaker 1: soundbites Jonathan Turley on CNN's New Room Today. Jake Tapper

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Speaker 1: spoke with him, said the nineteen Voting Rights Act was

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Speaker 1: renewed for twenty five years in two thousand and six.

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Speaker 1: It was an overwhelming vote by a very divided Congress,

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Speaker 1: the vote three thirty three in the House, ninety eight

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Speaker 1: to nothing in the Senate. What's interesting is, even though

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Speaker 1: there was an overwhelming vote in favor of continuing the

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Speaker 1: Voting Rights Act, Chief Justice John Roberts made no secret

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Speaker 1: about his skepticism that it was still required. Turley said,

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Speaker 1: this this is very much a long term project for

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Speaker 1: Chief Justice Roberts. He stated years ago that he was

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Speaker 1: highly critical of of Section five, particularly taking out Section

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Speaker 1: four effectively takes Section five offline. But Roberts has been

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Speaker 1: gunning for this for some time. During the oral argument,

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Speaker 1: both Roberts and Scalia child at Congress and basically said,

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Speaker 1: no member of Congress has the guts to vote against

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Speaker 1: a bill like this because that you don't want to

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Speaker 1: be viewed his favoring racism or interfering with the rights

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Speaker 1: of minorities. And so what you have here is a

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Speaker 1: clear rejection of Congress and frankly, a degree of contempt

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Speaker 1: for Congress that came out of the oral argument, Well, okay,

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Speaker 1: you can put it that way. Degree of contempt for

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Speaker 1: Congress because it was renewed. This portion of the Voting

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Speaker 1: Rights Act was renewed for twenty five years, seven years ago,

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Speaker 1: and it was overwhelming three three in the House, nothing

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Speaker 1: in the Senate. It was clear, and that those two

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Speaker 1: votes are highly illustrative of attitudes everywhere regardless what the

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Speaker 1: right thing to do was nobody had the courage to

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Speaker 1: because they were afraid of being called racists. This provision

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Speaker 1: and no business being renewed for twenty five years. You know,

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Speaker 1: the past discrimination when it has long ago been dealt with,

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Speaker 1: the civil rights community wants per petual discrimination, reverse discrimination

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Speaker 1: if you will to continue for political reasons. This isn't

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Speaker 1: about making amends anymore. It's about two things. It's about

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Speaker 1: advancing liberalism, of course, but it's also about keeping the

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Speaker 1: bank population constantly royaled and angry and told that they're

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Speaker 1: being discriminated against, and that they're voting is being denied,

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Speaker 1: and they're voting rights and being denied, and that the

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Speaker 1: Republicans have designs on never having them vote again. It's

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Speaker 1: all part of that. Getting even with him is another russianism.

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Speaker 1: Get even with them is m is what was propelling this,

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Speaker 1: But there's no reason for it. It's like there's no

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Speaker 1: reason for affirmative action anymore. It's it was affirmative action

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Speaker 1: was illegitimate in the first place, simply replaced one discrimination

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Speaker 1: with another, sort of like, here's how it feels. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna make you go through what you put us. The

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Speaker 1: problem was the reverse discrimination was being applied to people

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Speaker 1: who had not engaged in it, and that's all the

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Speaker 1: courts said. Turley is right. The justice is basically called out.

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Speaker 1: Congress today has a bunch of cowards. You know you guys,

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Speaker 1: you didn't have a courage the right thing, So we're

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Speaker 1: going to do it for you, and we're just gonna

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Speaker 1: invalidate this this portion of voting rights there because it's

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Speaker 1: no longer constitutional. It's not legal to continue discriminating against

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Speaker 1: people who didn't engage in it in the first place.

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Speaker 1: Be great if this whole line of thinking we're applied

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Speaker 1: throughout our culture and society when it comes to affirmative action,

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Speaker 1: racial discrimination and all that