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and could face no criminal accountability or prosecution, unless he was first successfully impeached and convicted. >> could a president ordered s. e. a. l. team six to assassinate a political rival? >> thats an official act, in order to s. e. a. l. team six? >> he would have to be, and would speedily be impeached and convicted before the criminal prosecution. >> but if you werent? there would be no criminal prosecution, no criminal liability for that? >> in the chief justices opinion ...

Permanently disenfranchise the other party. in most cases for a whole decade at a time until theres another census in 2030. i mean, just as an example, democratic states and republican states have drawn partisan gerrymandered maps, one of the maps that ended up before the supreme court for this ruling yesterday was a map from north carolina. north carolina republicans ended up in court in the supreme court case because they devised a plan for their state where if north carolina voted basically s...

Party will -- they have been given unfettered power to draw districts in that state in ways that more or less permanently disenfranchise the other party. in most cases for a decade at a time until there is another census in 2030. as an example, democratic and republican states have drawn partisan gerrymandered maps. one of the maps that ended up before the supreme court was a map from north carolina. north carolina republicans ended up in court in the supreme court case because they devised a pl...

About in terms of what happened politically in 2020 is not necessarily the presidential race or the senate or house race. its the elections for your state legislature, of all things. whichever party controls state legislatures next year, that party will -- they have been given unfettered power to draw districts in that state in ways that more or less permanently disenfranchise the other party. in most cases for a decade at a time until there is another census in 2030. as an example, democratic a...

There, but then i wouldnt get to your book. you write in this book about the back-sliding of the american democracy, gerrymandering, voters suppression, legislative hardball. what can be done? >> i think the biggest thing -- this is something small-d democrats should support as well. people who arent necessarily aligned with the democratic party. democrats should win elections on the state levels. what they can do is win a burch of governorships in some of these big states, in many of them gover...