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Unprecedented campaign, a fact that is not lost on Vice President kamala harris, who had this warning for a Capacity Crowd of more than 10,000 People Last Night in madison, wisconsin. This is not 2016 or 2020, the stakes are even higher, because remember, two months ago, the United States Supreme Court basically told the former president that he will effectively be immune, no matter what he does in the White House. Think about that, just imagine, Donald Trump with no guardrails. He, who has vowed to be a dictator on day one, he, who has called for quote, the termination of the constitution of ...

>> in your opinion, and i want to go back to what ari said at the beginning about how important ultimately this ruling is going to be, would you agree that we're looking at something of maximum potential importance when you consider all the things that are affected by the census? >> oh, absolutely. i mean, if you fundamentally change the way we count the population in the country, you are changing all kinds of formulas. you know, not least being how you allocate congressional districts. and it's clear that if you change those numbers as mr. hefler's document showed, it will benefit, as he put ...

Guy having a hand in the census. he's saying not only are we going to try to add this question, we know explicitly we're doing it to benefit republicans. there's no doubt about the purpose of the question now. >> the doj sees it differently, and i want to read the response they gave to the "new york times." these eleventh hour allegations including an accusation of dishonesty against a senior department of justice official are false. that study played no role in the department's 2017 request to reinstate a citizenship question to the 2020 centennial census. these unfounded allegations are an u...

Would be used to add, which would help republicans particularly white republicans and harm democrats. so this is really a smoking gun showing that the purpose of this question was to benefit republicans politically, essentially what they're trying to do is gerrymander the census to make more future gerrymandering efforts easier. >> this isn't the only example in which he tried to affect the maps, right? >> this is not the only example of tom doing this. this is a guy who for decades went around drawing redistricting maps that would benefit their party. some were so extreme, there was a plan ou...

Partisanship. newly discovered files from a deceased republican operative indicate the real purpose of the question is to gerrymander districts. he found that adding the question, quote, would be advantageous to republicans and nonhispanic whites. he then petitioned the trump administration to adopt the plan and while the department of justice is dismissing any involvement with him or his plan, that is directly contradicted by "the new york times" report that a portion of a document found on hard drives quote later appeared word for word in a draft letter from the justice department to the cen...