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Of democracy docket, where he rode up both groups threatening our democracy. mark, on the polling, as someone who obviously cares about this, and you've devoted your career to this, are you like i was pleasantly surprised by this polling result? >> i am chris. i am surprised, but it's not enough. i'm glad as we are getting closer to election day, americans are waking up and realizing that the threat to democracy is real, and if we don't find it now, and we don't defeat it now, we could lose our democracy for generations or more. so all it's great to see the numbers have jumped dramatically, th...

Don't think people understand how much we depend on them for rules guiding our lives. >> and pete, one final question. what's the timeline on when we're going to get these two decisions? >> good question. normally speaking, if this was a normal case, it would take months, but this is not. it came on the emergency docket. the supreme court had this extremely rare friday session. and so they're going to act pretty quickly. and one of the things that came up today was, would the court issue a temporary stay on the enforcement of this, temporary block enforcement just to give the court more time t...

Court, which meticulously applied this court's longstanding voting rights precedent and, most of all, it does a disservice to black alabamans, who under that precedent, have had their electoral power diminished. justice kagan also pointed out that the court shouldn't even be issuing such an order on its so-called shadow doctor, which is this emergency docket that doesn't have the benefit of getting full briefing, of having arguments, and some would argue the transparency needed to understand the nature of the court's decision. so since the merits of this case won't be taken up until now later ...

Well, there's a balance that the court has to consider, and that it -- insofar as, on the one hand, it has always had an emergency docket. the need for flexibility, the ability to get answers to the parties at issue is something that's important in our system. on the other hand, the court has also considered the interest in allowing issues to percolate, allowing other courts to rule on things before they come to the court, and i am not privy, at the moment, to the justices' views and why and how they're using the emergency docket in these cases.

Court has to consider. and that it -- insofar as on the one hand it has always had an emergency docket, the need for flexibility, the ability to get answers to the parties at issue is something that's important in our system. on the other hand, the court has also considered the interest in allowing issues to percolate, allowing other courts to rule on things before they come to the court. and i am not privy at the moment to the justices' views and why and how they're using the emergency docket in these cases. if i was fortunate enough to be