key provision of the original voting rights act that had been systematically gutted by the john roberts spring court over the past year or eight years or so. then there is the for the people act, that's a big, very ambitious proposal, it covers everything from ballot access, to ex ethics rules, taking on dark money groups that have flourished in the wake of citizens united, they used unregulated sources of money. now the freedom to vote act, for one that was up for consideration, the senate this afternoon, that's like not the big unambitious won it is a significantly sick scaled back version of that big ambitious agenda that's already passed in the house. you might even call it a watered down version of the for the people act there's a reason for. that you might not be surprised to hear that the mcleod extend under joe manchin he's been in the news a lot recently as the kind of scourge of legislation he said he would not support the big bold voting rights proposal that was that passed in the house he instead wanted to go another route, he wanted