Tonight, the Supreme Court slices into six decades of voting protections for black and brown Americans

and an historic decision that has just supercharged the race to redraw America's congressional maps.

The former Attorney General Eric Holder joins me live to talk about that and the

seashell indictment of James Comey as President Trump uses Hollywood to try and make the case.

Tonight on Larcault's Live.

My opening statement tonight, today six justices all but threw away the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Now they left the words on the paper, but they erased the meaning.

The way poll taxes and literacy tests and jelly bean counted tried to negate the 15th Amendment,

they gave black people the right to vote.

Why? Because voting is the single most important power in a democracy.

Not just the act of going to the polls and filling in some bubbles, no, it's the ability to vote for your candidate of choice.

Now, you are not entitled to vote for the winner, but gerrymandering districts can mean that your

power is so watered down that you never even had a chance to choose who represents you or

pretends to. Enter Louisiana. The court struck down its

map today, saying that lawmakers illegally used race to draw a majority black district. At the

heart of the ruling was Section 2 of the Civil Rights Act that LBJ signed. And before I explain Section 2,

why don't you listen to what LBJ said

when he signed it into law?

Millions of Americans are denied the right to vote

because of their color.

This law will ensure them the right to vote.

The wrong is one which no American in his heart can justify.

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