July 12 - Mitt's Three Year Memory Lapse; Texas Voter ID Law Will Head For the Supreme Court; The Biggest Threat to Nigeria - Oil Theft

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Then we examine the Texas Voter ID law hearing before a three judge federal panel in Washington DC where the Justice Department’s challenge under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 is likely to lead to an appeal that could soon be before the Supreme Court where the constitutionality of the centerpiece of the Voting Rights Act will be in jeopardy. Wendy Weiser, who directs the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School, joins us to discuss the fate of a law that as it stands, will disqualify up to 800,000 eligible and likely Democratic voters in Texas.

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Then finally, with today’s tragedy in Nigeria where over 100 people were burned alive trying to siphon gasoline from an overturned tanker truck, we look further into the rampant problem of oil theft that according to Nigeria’s Finance Minister, costs the nation a billion or more a month in revenues. Aniedi Okure, the Executive Director of Africa Faith and Justice Network joins us to discuss how crime, in addition to corruption, terrorism and ethnic strife, is stifling Nigeria’s future.