years since he served as a young assistant in the regan administration and fought elements of the bipartisan reauthorization of the voting rights act of 1962 one of the most consistent lines in his jurisprudence as chief justice is weakening democracy protections and undermining federal voting rights law and essentially, what he has done is put a dare down in front of the congress and, you know, said i am -- we are going to knock down the preclearance, which really was the beginning of the enormous push back we're seeing on voting rights and you have the responsibility of building a majority to pass it. but what we're seeing in the red states, they're passing suppress sieve laws ochoenn a party line supreme court made key decisions on the party line majority rules basis. the on place you can't change the law on a party line majority rules basis is the senate.