constitutional rights. joining us now former hud director and mayor, julian castro who today is adding another title to his resume, that of msnbc political analyst. thanks for being with us. why don t we start by following up on jim clyburn s suggestion. i said time and again that if mitch mcconnell made an exception for the filibuster for what conservatives consider to be the most important thing congress does, which is to vote on the domination of supreme court justices, then why in the world can you not always make an exception to voting rights, and as jim said, to rights involving the constitution? yeah, i think that representative clyburn is exactly right. as you point out, republicans have put a carve out, in effect, for the filibuster for the two