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. >> so what is this john lewis civil rights act that grouchy old joe biden is tired of being grouchy about. at its heart, the bill would give the federal government the to control how the elections ar conducted across the country. states obtain preclearance from the federal government before they can set the rules of their own elections. this means that among other things, the states would no longer have the authority to require voter identification or registration at the polls periods states would lose the power to pick the locations for polling sites as well as the ability to draw the bound...

Intimidation of those election workers. make interfering with a voter registration a federal crime. enhanced transparency in campaign advertisement. and create a federal obligation for companies to report instances of foreign interference. can you imagine that is what the republicans and those two moderate senators are actually blocking? as for the john lewis voting rights advancement act, the bill would reverse the 2013 supreme court decision that struck down portions of the voting rights acts of 1965. require certain states to require clearance from the justice department before changing law...

How important it is and we need to stop those laws before they're enacted. preclearance is very important, and we'll continue to fight for it. >> the president seems to be taking on a new tone. republicans are frequently asking what they are for -- that's what he's saying about republicans. he's also saying they were not as obstructive i should say back in the obama era. mitch mcconnell responding to that tonight. listen. >> the reason we've not been speaking recently this year is because he adopted the bernie sanders prescription for america. if the president wants to reinvent himself and com...

Here i find it ironic because it was justice roberts that wrote the majority opinion about 90 years ago in his own shelby county that gutted section five of the voting rights act. that's the one that required preclearance from the justice department four states that had a tradition of discriminating against voters based on race and that was the case where justice ginsburg famously wrote in her dissent, you don't throw away your umbrella in a rainstorm just because you're not getting wet. and throwing away that protection back in 2013 has really opened the floodgates now for all the gerrymander...

Rights act back in 2013. it's now even more right-wing. a limiting the requirement for states with a history of voter suppression to get federal preclearance for changes to voting laws. including texas, ground zero in turning the former president's big lie into active voter suppression. with the draconian sellable well passed last year even as democratic flip the state to stop it. but elected officials aren't the only ones trying to defend our democracy. we have democracy defenders. yes, it is regular folks going above and beyond fighting to ensure each citizen's voices heard. even if it means...