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Jon Stewart: “Is it literally as bad as Section 5 has worked so well?…”

Featuring: Jon Stewart, Liberal, Progressive | Comedian and Television Host | National

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Sherrilyn Ifill - What Happened to the Voting Rights Act? | The Daily Show

Published | Video Starts at 08:40

What are the metrics for how he decided things have changed? Because I would assume those metrics are the result of Section five. Yeah. It's so interesting. Is it literally as bad as Section 5 has worked so well? Let's remove Section 5. That's what the late, great Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said. She said that eliminating Section 5 now is like using an umbrella and it keeps you dry. (08:40–08:46)

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Suggests that the effectiveness of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act was used as a reason to remove it.

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