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Despite all this evidence that a manifestly unstable man tried to tear up the constitution and overturn an election, donald trump is still the clear leader of the republican party. my country, right or wrong, has been replaced by my party, right or wrong. so who is to say that the next time there is an opportunity to overturn the will of the people that republicans won't refuse to certify an election if they control both houses of congress? we can't say that it can't happen here. because it almost did. and that's why we need to strengthen democracy's guardrails now especially when republic can...

Is more narrow than the bigger piece of legislation and one of the things that democrats are keeping in mind as they try to push through that legislation is this is almost certainly going to end up back in the supreme court so they're trying to craft this legislation in a way that could address some of the concerns we've seen from some of the more conservative justices including in the arizona case that we got the ruling on a few weeks ago. this will be a slog through the summer to try to get the voting rights legislation passed. if they do, you can fully expect that to end up in the courts. c...

Piece of legislation and one of the things that democrats are keeping in mind as they try to push through that legislation is this is almost certainly going to end up back in the supreme court so they're trying to craft this legislation in a way that could address some of the concerns we've seen from some of the more conservative justices including in the arizona case that we got the ruling on a few weeks ago. this will be a slog through the summer to try to get the voting rights legislation passed. if they do, you can fully expect that to end up in the courts. chris: and quickly, marc, we've ...

Primary. with adams currently having less votes than de blasio did in his primary years ago. thankfully new york had rank choice voting. system used like in london where voters rank their top five choices. this ensures a more representative outcome. it's a step in the right direction. but it's not enough. even though curtis lee was the republican nominee, we'll see a far number of voters deciding the mayor of america's largest city than when we had a competitive open election in years like 2001. here's what it means that election reforms can come into play. new york city should embrace open pr...

Colleagues, this most sensitive subject may not be the best place to trash the senate's rule to the route something through. >> andrea, you heard mitch mcconnell allude to it there and kyrsten sinema, and try to pressure some of these more moderate democratic senators to change their opinion on the filibuster, to get rid of the legislative fill buster and reduce it to 55 or just now to a 50 vote pure majority threshold. sinema dug on this and said she will not do so. manchin said he will not do so and there are half a dozen others and senate democrats who are uncomfortable with that and the on...