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Were counted in the aftermath of the 2020 election. but what i've been focused on is making sure that we have a standardized process to access the ballot across the country, no matter where you live. if you are here in atlanta, if you are in california, if you are in new york, if you are in d.c. which is a whole other conversation for another night, but no matter where you live in this country, your right to vote should be standardized and that's what my focus is right now with h.r. 1, the for the people act. then when we get h.r. 4, the john lewis voting rights act, added on to this, that onl...

Situation that people aren't discussing enough. >> it is a very good point. bracket for example my own feeling about what the roberts court would do with the dark provisions of hr one, that is a bridge to cross in the future, but it is striking, i want to get your reaction to this, in some ways, mcconnell hates the dark money part. they hate it. mcconnell -- his name is on the big cases on this. we call the bluff. take that outside, let's just talk about restoring preclearance, which manchin has come out in favor of, he and lisa murkowski wrote a letter about. none of the money, none of the co...

Supreme court struck down the coverage formula which they said was based on the past practices and not what was happening now and was unconstitutional. so texas no longer were under clearance regime, had to have voting changes cleared by department of justice. hr-4 would re-establish that coverage formula but have it national to apply to any states with voting rights violations in last 25 years, met a certain threshold, would be in preclearance, and other great things too, certain changes would have to be precluded no matter where they occurred and provide reasonable notice to voters ahead of ...

Gonna be difficult in the senate the hr4 is still really really important because it restores the voting rights act and improves it from what was done to it in 2013 went to the supreme court struck down the coverage formula. they said the coverage from light was based on past practices and for that reason it was unconstitutional and they struck down that formula. in states like my state, texas, no longer run the plea clearance regime which is cleared by the department of justice. hr4 will real establish that coverage formula but have a national coverage formula that could apply to any state th...

On the question of protecting american democracy, there is perhaps another option. just going to throw it out there. in his recent op-ed, he says he supports, he doesn't support the for the people act, but he does support the john lewis voting rights act, which would restore the federal preclearance requirements that john roberts and the conservatives on the supreme court just ripped to shreds for no reason. manchin writes, quote, the john lewis voting rights advancement act would update the formula states and localities to not restrict the rights of any particular group or population. as we r...