greg abbott s office told us that he can t make it, and tha we should talk to the attorney general of texas, ken paxton instead. what is craig s a bit position less than 24 hours after th heard on fox, governor abbot announced his intentions t pursue a pardon for perry. it s a latest example of a really chilling trend among th political right to excuse or embrace deadly right vigilantes there s a real argument amon conservatives that they should first of all, be able to affor guns and then quickly use thos guns to shoot protesters, shoo liberals, and that it should b illegal to do so it s that they re greg abbot appears to be effectivel endorsing now. sarah jones is a senior writer at new york magazine her latest piece on th frightening trend is titled th united states of vigilantes. she does banal i m always a big fan of your writing. how did this case become thi sort of cost select? i think because there wer so many parallels to the cas
about who s freedoms you are violating, and the freedoms yo are violating are the everyday citizens who their basic right of movement are being violated and are being trampled on by your false definition of thi word, word, freedom. or maybe those everyday americans who do exercise thei right to vote, they don t feel like their votes are countin because they are living in heavily gerrymandere districts. last week, i spoke to georgi senator raphael warnock. and i want to share some o what he said what we know about th tennessee legislature is tha it is deeply gerrymandered and so, those who have bee playing games with a lot effectively pushing th people s voices out of their own democracy throug gerrymandering now, this week, took a ste that was shocking, but if yo think about it, it should be surprising, as they expel thes two legislators. they have convinced themselves that the peoples houses ther has. and so, they have effectivel
americans who do exercise thei right to vote, they don t feel like their votes are countin because they are living in heavily gerrymandere districts. last week, i spoke to georgi senator raphael warnock. and i want to share some o what he said what we know about th tennessee legislature is tha it is deeply gerrymandered and so, those who have bee playing games with a lot effectively pushing the people s voices out of their own democracy throug gerrymandering now, this week, took a ste that was shocking, but if yo think about it, it should be surprising, as they expel thes two legislators. they have convinced themselves that the peoples houses ther has. and so, they have effectivel effected the people out of their own house. jeff, do people in nashvill realize how gerrymandered thei state s? and can you use this opportunity to change the wa it operates? we certainly do recognize that we ve been gerrymandered. we used to be represented by
and they have effectivel evicted the people out of thei own house. we see it in tennessee i ve been getting a real sense we see it at the federal level as well. but people of america on the left and the right have fa more agreement on the gu safety issue, difference notwithstanding, then what w see reflected in the legislation then that we hav been able to pass. and that is true to the degree to which peoples voices have been squeezed out of their democracy. most americans believe that we ought to have universa background checks. most americans believe that we ought to ban assault weapons and the fact that we can t get it done and haven t been able to get i done so far is indicative of the ways whic those who have hijacked our democracy. as haven t simply expel thos legislators, they have effectively evicted the people out of their districts, out of their own house. and i think people see this.
it is deeply gerrymandered and so those who have been playing games with the - effectively pushing people s voices out of their ow democracy, through gerrymandering, vowed this week, took a step. that was shocking. but if you think about it, i shouldn t be surprising, a they expel these two legislators. they have convinced themselves that the peoples house is thei house. and they have effectivel evicted the people out of thei own house. we see it in tennessee i ve been getting a real sense we see it at the federal level as well. but people of america on the left and the right have fa more agreement on the gu safety issue, difference notwithstanding, then what w see reflected in the legislation then that we hav been able to pass. and that is true to the degree to which peoples voices have been squeezed out of their democracy. most americans believe that we ought to have universa background checks. most americans believe that we