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we ll show you the ballots on the senate floor after the brutal silencing laugh night of senator elizabeth warren. the decision s by the judges of the ninth circuit which may come later this week could test the limitations of presidential authority and expected to be ultimately be appealed to the united states supreme court. today president trump defended his authority and attacked the judges who will render that decision as well as the court system, itself. i listen to lawyers on both sides last night, and they were talks about things that had just nothing to do with it. i listened to a panel of judges and i ll comment on that i will not comment on the statements made by certainly one judge, but vi have to be honest that if these judges wanted to, in my opinion, help the court in terms of respect for the court, they d do what they should be doing. i mean, it s so sad. we haven t had a decision yet, strong point. so he invited the discussion by the court as to who has the ....
Afternoon from the biden camp and how confident are they that they can eventually pass this bill without these problematic amendments? yasmin, we really do have to step back and see how unusual it is that this defense policy bill, the ndaa, as we call it here inside the beltway, it has become such a partisan flash point. there are often some very significant policy disagreements and discussions that are happening behind the scenes during the writing of these bills. but they often end up passing on significant bipartisan margins. and if anything there are bigger differences between the white house and congress says a unified force that we would see between democrats and republicans. that obviously has changed as a group of very conservative republicans in the house, really pushing for some of the so-called culture war amendments that are being included in this, dealing with issues like lgbt equality, like abortion, like transgender issues. and so, that is why we saw the white house, i ....
Couples to be recognized, that same season we saw that same court takeaway section five of the voting rights act. so what we know is that progress is not a straight line and if we do not fight and defended, our opponents oil constantly chip away at it. it also teaches us that they are coming for all of us in a deeply coordinated way, so we cannot go off and fight to our own individual battles, we cannot fight battles to protect holman s right to choose, fight battles for voting rights and affirmative action, fight battles over here for lgbt equality because their infrastructure is aligned and coordinated and they are going to come after each and every one of us. just when we thought that our rights were secured in the lgbtq space, they are following the same exact playbook that has taken on voting rights and so many other things. so this is why we have to be vigilant and not think that these victories are solid without the investment in ....
Court takeaway section five of the voting rights act. so what we know is that progress is not a straight line and if we do not fight and defended, our opponents oil constantly chip away at it. it also teaches us that they are coming for all of us in a deeply coordinated way, so we cannot go off and fight to our own individual battles, we cannot fight battles to protect holman s right to choose, fight battles for voting rights and affirmative action, fight battles over here for lgbt equality because their infrastructure is aligned and coordinated and they are going to come after each and every one of us. just when we thought that our rights were secured in the lgbtq space, they are following ....