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Distinction. before we let you go, i read this week a minnesota state judge in one of your largest counties ruled that absentee drop boxes are not allowed under your state law, siding with the conservative law firm in its suit against the state election commission. reading that and thinking about your current office and your previous one as a u.s. congressman, i wonder what goes through your mind as you watch voting rights in peril, not just from republican action, but democratic inaction. your brief response. right. my brief response is that we have got to be on the alert to protect voting rights. we ve got to combat and confront any attempt to weak continue right to vote. we got to stop this wave. i think it wasle 2013, shelby v. holder, we ve seen a steady wave of efforts to curtail people s ....
Least of these and that represents all demographics, so are you there to do your job as the supreme court said in shelby v. holder that section four of the voting rights act was unconstitutional because it was outdated, the formula. they said congress do your job. correct it. make it right. so i would say to senators sinema and manchin, which is the aspect of doing ob, and then we would jump over across the aisle and tell those traditional republicans who are trying to save their parties from the infringes who think the insurrection was just people visiting capitol hill, he would say to them, come and work with me. work across the aisle, do what we used to do when government used to work. we would duke it out on the floor and we would go have dinner afterwards. that s the message that the congressman would deliver to his colleagues in the democratic party in the senate as well as those on the other side. thank you. grant, i ve got 30 seconds ....
That have institution so we re asking for the integrity of our democracy to be supported and reinforced because the attacks against the very democracy has not only heightened and increased but have become more aggressive in tactics. i m a little confused why you aren t publicly showing your support for this president. aren t you on the same team? it seems like republicans are almost unified against making these lies happen. while the president is in this fight with you and wants what you want and has even in our preview with jeff zeleny today says he plans to call on the senate to do exactly what you are suggesting. well, it s been over a year since senate bill 202 has been passed and signed into law by governor brian kemp. it s been nearly 14 years since the shelby v. holder decision in the federal government has not had a response so though the president over the course of his ....
The president needs to make about democracy, about american democracy? well, it s not new that there will be a tax on our democratic systems from within. that s not new. the point has to be what are we doing to stand up against that, right? so we have been attempting for example in congress to get the john lewis voting rights advancement act passed, the freedom to vote act passed. we need to get those passed because after 2013 and shelby v. holder when the votes acts right was gutted essentially, we need to put back in place the protections. we re going to continue to work on what we need to do to fight back against what s happening in those states including supporting all the folks at the local level who in many other states are actually strengthening the right to vote. essentially what is at issue and i think it s plain as day to see is that people, again, in record numbers voted in 2020 and that ....