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Go marauding to find people to beat to death. no, the polite way to do it, the way to do it if youre credentialed or youre mitch mcconnell, the polite way is to cultivate elite lawyers at the federalist society who become judges, justices, they get nice op eds about how collegial they are. then you bring those lawsuits and those justices chip away at it. a snip here, cut there, death by 1,000 blows until they have functionally done away with the single most important law in history. we did this ...

Party no longer believes in democracy as it stands? and so, thats -- i think, thats the question now. and i think democrats should give up on this idea of bipartisanship. just forget it and just basically say were going to do whats right for the country. if that means its democrat, versus republican, were going to do whats right. and remember, the 14th and 15th amendments to the united states constitution were completely partisan. and thats the only way they were able to get through. so the stan...

And so i think the conversation is what do we do as a country when it a major political party no longer believes in democracy as it stands? and so thats -- i think thats the question now. and i think democrats should give up on this idea of bipartisanship, just forget it and just basically say were going to do whats right for the country. and if that means its democrat versus republican, were going to do whats right. and remember the 14th and 15th amendments to the united states constitution wer...

Expand access to the ballot, and you have six justices saying, no, you have to read it far more narrowly, undoing much of what the provision is about. >> final question, where do you look as a memdy f we can agree that anything less than making sure all barriers are clear, making sure all americans can vote where do you look for a remedy to all the state laws being passed? >> i mean, our founder has put congress in the drivers seat, after the 15th amendment that gave congress power to enforce it...

Radical, embattle too many majority laws. limiting section two from multiple directions wherever it can, and im quoting justice kagan here. the majority gives a cramped reading to broad language and then uses that to uphold two election laws from arizona that discriminate against minority voters. that is -- she is making clear here, rick, where she stands on this. >> yeah, theres no question that the court had a much greater ability to protect minority voters than the opportunity it took. its a ...

Of the law or the 15th amendment. you can say somebody has violated their constitutional rights if the result of their action has caused there to be that abridgment on the basis of race. to have that impact. here you have combined what he said, the purposeful intent which makes an even stronger case to do so. thats why hes bringing it under this provision. >> yeah. so garland went as far as to say if the supreme court hadnt struck down a provision of the voting rights act in 2013 that required s...

Minimal standards these states have to oa bide by and they cannot continue to abridge. this is not just a black issue. it not even jim crow pure because when you start rolling back same day registration and early voting, undermining mail in ballots, putting limits on people even being able to get water. doing racist jerry bandering, you hurt black people. you hurt white people, asians, natives, latinos, young people and the disabled and so thats why we came in moral fusion to say this should not...

People from the hood to the hollers came here, started in west virginia last week. came here by the hundreds today. to say, listen. s.1 is what we want. 79% of even west virginians want it. we got minimal standards these states have to abide by and they cannot continue to abridge and undermine the right to vote. this is not just a black issue. its not even jim crow pure. its james crow esquire because when you start rolling back same-day registration, rolling back early voting. undermining mail-...

Dont believe in the 50th amendment because the 50th amendment that gave blacks the right to vote passed by one party vote. >> its an excellent point, the 15th amendment -- 14th as well we should note. in fact, big part of countrys under military rule, but it was a strange time anyways. but the deeper question to me here, congressman, is this idea of the sort of specter and to me the kind of code of federalizing elections when that is -- weve been fighting on that turf forever about who controls ...

You dont the budget issue. >> its worth emphasizing this point for a moment because there is at this point no conceptual coherence to the filibuster. there are two major exceptions, reconciliation, which, again, is a sort of obscure budgetary process, and then nominations, right? we got rid of that up to and including sproem supreme court justices and judges that have lifetime tenure. that wasnt handed down by moses in the tablets or passed down by the founding fathers. thats complete happenstan...