A turning point for voting rights

Published: March 5, 2021, 9:45 p.m.

The future of voting rights \u2014 in state legislatures across the country and before the Supreme Court.
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In recent weeks, Republican state legislators across the country have been proposing and voting on a variety of voting restrictions. Politics reporter Amy Gardner examines the onslaught of legislation intended to limit mail-in ballots, early-voting periods and ballot boxes \u2014 and the motivations behind the proposals. 
On Tuesday, a key part of the Voting Rights Act was stress-tested before the Supreme Court. Gilda Daniels, a former deputy chief in the Justice Department and the author of \u201cUncounted: The Crisis of Voting Suppression in America,\u201d breaks down the arguments before the court.