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Its defenders consider it a needed bulwark for justice
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All In: The Fight for Democracy

Its defenders consider ita needed bulwark for justice

Its defenders consider it
a needed bulwark for justice

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Its defenders consider it a needed bulwark for justice.
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01:01:20
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May 27, 2025
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The documentary takes a look at the history, and current activism against voter suppression; barriers to voting that most people don't even know is a threat to their basic rights as citizens of the United States.
SCOTT PELLEY: The Voting Rights Act requires nine states - All In: The Fight for Democracy 00:06
SCOTT PELLEY: The Voting Rights Act requires nine states
BERT REIN: From a lawyer’s point of view, - All In: The Fight for Democracy 00:07
BERT REIN: From a lawyer’s point of view,
And that’s the business we’re in, so we took the case. - All In: The Fight for Democracy 00:05
And that’s the business we’re in, so we took the case.
JOHN ROBERTS: We’ll hear argument first - All In: The Fight for Democracy 00:05
JOHN ROBERTS: We’ll hear argument first
We argued that the Voting Rights Act - All In: The Fight for Democracy 00:10
We argued that the Voting Rights Act
Think that that really doesn’t mask the need - All In: The Fight for Democracy 00:07
Think that that really doesn’t mask the need
You can’t treat states the same, - All In: The Fight for Democracy 00:07
You can’t treat states the same,
ANTONIN SCALIA: All of the noncovered states - All In: The Fight for Democracy 00:06
ANTONIN SCALIA: All of the noncovered states
ADEGBILE: The South has changed and made progress, - All In: The Fight for Democracy 00:13
ADEGBILE: The South has changed and made progress,
ROBERTS: Have there been episodes-- egregious episodes-- - All In: The Fight for Democracy 00:07
ROBERTS: Have there been episodes-- egregious episodes--
ROBERTS: Well, then it doesn’t seem to help you make the point - All In: The Fight for Democracy 00:06
ROBERTS: Well, then it doesn’t seem to help you make the poi...
BERMAN: John Roberts had it out for the Voting Rights Act - All In: The Fight for Democracy 00:07
BERMAN: John Roberts had it out for the Voting Rights Act
Early in his political career, it was John Roberts’s job - All In: The Fight for Democracy 00:10
Early in his political career, it was John Roberts’s job
ANDERSON: John Roberts, - All In: The Fight for Democracy 00:05
ANDERSON: John Roberts,
This is why this lineage is so important. - All In: The Fight for Democracy 00:04
This is why this lineage is so important.
Because he hated the Voting Rights Act. - All In: The Fight for Democracy 00:05
Because he hated the Voting Rights Act.
I knew that it was doing important work, - All In: The Fight for Democracy 00:07
I knew that it was doing important work,
A controversial ruling today by the Supreme Court. - All In: The Fight for Democracy 00:04
A controversial ruling today by the Supreme Court.
GWEN IFILL: Five-to-four, the U.S. Supreme Court - All In: The Fight for Democracy 00:06
GWEN IFILL: Five-to-four, the U.S. Supreme Court
It invalidated a key part of the Voting Rights Act. - All In: The Fight for Democracy 00:04
It invalidated a key part of the Voting Rights Act.