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For having me on. and im usually more praising of your show than critical, i want to be clear at the outset of that. the problem with the media is that it treats certain aspects of democracy as sacrosanct. for example, any encroachment on the first amendment right to publish newspapers or curtail the media or to take action against the media is uniformly denounced by the media in absolutist terms. but when it comes to free and fair elections, there tends to be more of a nuanced and sliding scale...

Lewis voting rights act, reinstating the justice departments power to block some states and localities from enacting discriminatory voting rules. why did you not support those bills? is there a bipartisan effort that you and other republicans could get behind that could actually protect the rights of voters and get through the house and senate for president biden to sign? >> i certainly hope there is. i think there is. theres been discussions in the senate from last i have heard. you can call a ...

>> i know you are worried about protecting democracy. you have been outspoken. you have opposed both bills from the democratic party that are intended to strengthen protection for voters, john lewis voting rights act, a bill reinstating the justice departments power to block some states and localities from enacting what they view as discriminatory voting rules. why did you not support those bills? is there a bipartisan effort that you and other republicans could get behind that could actually pr...

Embedded in the constitution. it is not a statute. it is a senate rule just as you would have a house rule. it is easily rolled off for a temporary period of time to be able to save those of us who are trying to fight. that is my constituents. we need the filibuster gone, and we need it gone as soon as possible, and we also need to be able to ensure that we have a circumstance, if you will, that moves these bills along, moves the s-1 along and moves the john robert lewis voting rights. if this h...

Im laughing because im going to make a leap and guess im the only member of the panel who lost their seat in congress because the district was redrawn. it happened to me in 2014/2015 as a result of a court case. it provides a good contrast to whats happening in texas. its this. there are always going to be winners and losers in redistricting. i was a loser in it. who draws those lines that creates the winners and losers? in my case, the voters demanded through a constitutional amendment that geo...

Repair the damage that was done to the supreme court by the original voting rights act when the supreme court had that terrible decision in 2013, shelby county vs. holder where they struck a blow against the preclearance provision and really opened up the door to all of the voter suppression that weve seen over the last eight plus years. and so i think its the combination of the two pieces of legislation, both the freedom to vote act and the john lewis voting rights advancement act that can get ...

>> nick, federal voting rights legislation is not passed. what is still on deck? what is working its way through state legislatures and soon to be passed by the end of this year or ahead of the midterms? >> well, in terms of legislation that might restrict access to voting, michigan is currently trying to do a work around of a likely veto by governor whitmer that would have a hole new host of restrictions, things like absentee ballots, looking at election administration, kind of similar to what ...

For this last cycle because it is about protections of preclearance. they named stuff like after historic figures, right? while republicans are like, the planned plan, that sounds like money. why are democrats so bad at coming up -- they are so busy doing their coup government stuff. we are going to build bridges, roads, we are gonna get that for. you and republicans are saying, the president of the united states moderate, completely normal, nor me, normal joe biden is a marxist! they are saying...

Ex-presidents big lie. the legislation which would require states with recent histories, all of them, of discrimination to get federal reclearance before changing voting rights laws is necessary according to house speaker nancy pelosi. quote, congress has not only an ironclad constitutional mandate but a moral responsibility to enact hr-4. that moral responsibility is apparently not felt amongst republicans. not a single gop lawmaker voted for the bill. just like the vote in march on the for the...

Census findings. take shelby county, for example. the small county at the center of alabama has a population of just around 200,000 people. in 2013, it single-handedly gutted the voting rights act of 1965, opening the flood gates for voter suppression for years to come. that year justice roberts supreme court invalidated a key portion of the voting rights act known as preclearance, which essentially made sure states could not pass discriminatory laws that restrict people of color from voting. re...