Neal Katyal: GOP lawyer during Supreme Court hearing 'tried to nullify the Voting Rights Act'
Neal Katyal, former acting U.S. Solicitor General, tells Lawrence O'Donnell that the lawyer representing Republicans at a Supreme Court hearing argued that the Voting Rights Act "should basically have no teeth to it and that ran into hot water from even the conservatives at the court" because the Republican argument was "contrary to the plain text of the law."
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