mentioned, the big lie is not the beginning of republican efforts to roll back access to the ballot and to undermine federal protections for voting rights. in fact, john roberts has been on a crusade to do so for 40 years since he served as a young assistant in the justice department of the reagan administration and fought elements of the bipartisan reauthorization of the voting rights act in 1982, one of the most consistent through-lines in his jurisprudence as chief justice has been weakening democracy protections, undermining federal voting rights law, and essentially what he has done is put a dare down in front of the congress and, you know, said we are going to knock down the pre-clearance, which really was the beginning of the enormous pushback we're seeing on voting rights, and you have the responsibility of building a majority to pass it. but, you know, what we're seeing in the red states, they're passing these suppressive laws on a party line, majority rules