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I mean, it was beyond suspicious. it was audacious because this is a trump administration that has not done anything in any other context to enforce the voting rights act. they treated it as though its an inconvenience. the notion that suddenly theres this burning need to protect minority voting in america from this administration. its not only short of paradoxical in light of how they treated minority voting, its also just a flat-out lie. >> that lie was exposed when tom halford, gop, died, and...

Paradoxical in light of how they treated minority voting, its also just a flat-out lie. >> that lie was exposed when tom halford died and his daughter discovered documents among his private possessions. >> his daughter finds these zip drive with information that shows he had engineered this as a plan explicitly to suppress minority votes. >> in the files, he indicated a citizenship question would help republicans in the redistricting process by discouraging hispanic communities from responding t...

Split on that along conventional ideological lines as well. im always hesitant to assume the court will do that sort of thing. i would like to reserve judgment until i see what they actually do, but certainly the oral argument would give you some concerns on that regarding. the two cases are deeply connected, in the sense that the census every ten years triggers the reapportionment of congressional seats, and therefore the redrawing of district lines, the redistricting process. so if you imagine...

Beto orourke talked about this all during their roll outs. we want people to be more vocal about the need for a fair redistricting process in 2021. >> what about biden? >> im sure the vice president will sign this as well. i know him and im confident that hell sign this pledge. >> what do you think of that field? >> its a good feel. we have a lot of qualified candidates? >> too many? >> yeah. well at this point we have too many now. through the debates and through the iowa and new hampshire cauc...

Pangs about that. but one thing i would say is that if i were running i would be signing this pledge which is what were asking all the candidates to do. >> have you done it? >> we have gotten favorable responses from a number of them. but we want them to sign this pledge to end gerrymandering and map manipulation. my expectation is ta will sign it. but were also asking regular citizens to sign this pledge as well. >> well, that will be easy. citizens want the game to be fair. when youre in it. y...

Reform may have come to a halt at this point because they dont have the power that they did before. paul: what about the rollback, for example, in wisconsin and michigan, had really made enormous progress on tax reform, on public union reform, on a variety of other things, education reform, is some of that going to be rolled back now just right away? >> i think thats hard to do right away because they do not have the -- democrats do not have legislatures in those states but, of course, gain cont...

Imagine if they pick up illinois, ohio, iowa and wisconsin, imagine what that does to the map. the middle of the country becomes a blue stronghold. that will position democrats very well likely for 2020. >> but i just want to chime in real quick because we mentioned something but i want to make sure that the viewers understand. as a former state legislator, the most important year that you have is 2020 and 2021 because that is when you begin your redistricting process and you draw congressional ...

Control of, and republicans obviously want to keep. how much influence would a democrat have if they were able to win governors races across the country? >> these governors are going to preside over the redistricting process. they could be the bull work for any attempts to try to do unfair partisan gerrymandering or perhaps under the radar racial jer r gerrymandering. >> and they can also protect health care in states if donald trump or the republican party is trying to take health care away. >>...

Democrats take over narrowly or will they get what could be a governing majority in the house? >> look, this environment is reminding many of us, and i would assume linda as well, of the 2010 environment that republicans had, they had a strong wind at their backs. the 2006 environment that democrats had. it looks like its going to be one of those environments, with one exception, and you alluded to it before, andrea, and that is the republicans really fortified many of their districts because th...

>> while liberals fretting about the fate of roe v. wade have dominated early headlines about president trumps next supreme court pick, the left is actually sounding a lot more alarm bells, charging nothing less than the fate of the republic hangs in the ballast. >> the issue of how protective the voting rights act is, whether or not that actually were. dominic applies to the redistricting process. theres the issue of whether we can actually control how much billionaires give to candidates, cont...