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Commitment of many state legislatures to attacking the foundations of our democracy appears to have deepened. the trend towards threatening election administrators with criminal penalties as more pronounced and aggressive, and attempts by legislators to perform core election functions is grown more brazen. many election officials are on the country have faced death threats. an email sent to election officials in georgia said, quote, no one of these places will be spared unless and until trump is...

Potentially most dangerous legislatures are giving themselves the right to interfere in vote counting and election disputes while tying the hands of secretaries of state to rule impartially or even in some cases to see legal advice. bill is giving legislators with oversight of elections allowing them to interfere in the running of elections and otherwise injecting the partisanship in the process of already passed arc and saw, georgia, idaho, indiana kansas north dakota oklahoma tennessee and tex...

Results. many of the people seeking those jobs now do not believe in democracy. dissociative press reports the local election jobs are being vacated as trumps false claims of fraud persist within the gop and provide a platform for his loyalists to launch campaigns to become top election officials in several swing states. that report from voting right group says that 2021 state legislative season ultimately proved to be a turning point in the history of americas democracy. these are the ingredien...

Election fund. and let me begin with you jim a tonight because the naacp legal defense fund has been fighting these battles as long as the naacp legal defense fund has existed. this chapter that weve arrived at now where we are dealing with the aftermath of voting, with secretary of states will be allowed to do or not be allowed to do, those changes in these election laws are things weve never seen before. >> thats right. until the acp defense fund has been around for 81 years and weve been figh...

Long-standing democracy starts to erode. it begins by undermining how people feel, not about the democracy that they have but about the administration of that democracy. >> janai nelson i know when marshall was running your legal shop at the naacp legal defense fund, he was accustomed to when he would gain some yardage and have some wins in this kind of arena. he was accustomed to the opposition finding a new way. finding some other way to block people from voting that always adjusting to whatev...

Than what weve seen in other areas and other regions. because its not only targeting black voters. hes doing that for sure but it is also targeting our democracy as a whole. it is undermining the machinery of our election administration systems and it is calling into question legitimacy of future elections if we allow these laws to stand. it invites partisan interference on a scale that weve never seen before and allows him to overturn legitimate election results and essentially override a littl...

Fight this fair court processes you are seeing a single party unfortunately enact a raft of law that is supporting all the processes in our democracy for fair content of election and its now installing election officials that are doing a party fitting at their will. that will lead to anarchy. that is not democracy. that is totalitarianism and that is something we must fight with every inch of are being. >> are in your article for jones, you mentioned not just the possibility of with these republ...

Democracy, being sensible. >> it embraces the reality of what were looking at. >> thats right. >> thank you very much, really appreciated. >> good to see you, lawrence. >> thank you. coming up, it wont be as easy as some of you might think for historians to decide who was the worst president. anderson will decide that for us next. hat fo us next. you never leave the house without your luvs or your big dad energy. because...when you see a leaky situation you have luvs ready for that pro-level lea...

Marshall was fighting. >> thats right and racism is a shape shifter and attempt to monopolize a democracy ends at this point really to illuminate this democracy is all part of the same story which is to maintain a hedge amount of power in a country that is centered on marshal to keep the core. he flooded the work he did in support of education and the most consequential case from the 1940s and the source of all writes which is the voting rights case out of texas because he knew that the fundamen...

Laws they read as if a republican state legislatures lot to make sure that there is someone friendly there to take donald trumps call when he calls and tells them how many votes he wants them to find. >> thats absolutely right, lawrence. thats the republican parties feel safe. theyre gonna do everything they can to try to make it harder to vote. if that doesnt work, they are going to be in the positions of power to actually try to overturn or interfere with how votes are counted and thats the mo...