it was a monday night, just after 8:30 eastern time when news broke that shook the entire country. political had the once in a lifetime scoop about a draft opinion. supreme court has voted to overturn abortion rights. we hold that roe and casey must be overruled, justice alito writes in a draft circulated inside the courtroom. that scoop, that headline changed everything. it certainly changed the course of the midterm elections. in that moment, the stakes of the upcoming november election, they skyrocketed. it gave democrats over a month and a half a head start to start campaigning on that issue before the opinion was handed down in late june. and on june 24th, the supreme court struck down roe v. wade. the law of the land for nearly 50 years, they stripped away reproductive rights for millions in this country. just six weeks later, the first test of abortion rights at the ballot box came in kansas. voters in kansas headed to the polls in early august to vote on a constitutio
midterms that i want to talk to him about, something i think you can help us wrap our heads around. let s start with the great state of louisiana. every ten years, there is a census, right? the last census in 2020 shows the same churned and louisiana that was taking place across several southern states. over the last decade, the white population shrink, and the black population grew. what people are now less than 56% of louisiana s population and about a third of the population there is black. yet, this is louisiana s congressional delegation. other states six members of congress, five are white republicans. one is a black democrat because even though louisiana is one third black, only one congressional district has majority black population. that s a state lawmakers drew the congressional maps. but after every census, state lawmakers get to draw new congressional maps and last year, despite those new census numbers showing a shrinking white population and a growing black pop
respond. says why beat your head around it? it could be horrible stuff. i couldn t fathom this. how much can one family bear this much? how do you contain horror? if this happened to you, where would you put it? in a box? would you carry with you everywhere? an anchor? chain to your soul? the box is full of demons. would you live in dread of the day you knew you d have the pride open and look inside. i m box full of ghost of my past, to confront it goes like that you have to be ready. where would you put it off, would you wait till next year? i move from state to state, and that box followed me with me. it followed me. of course it did it was his past. inside a box. and now, here he was prying it open, will he ever be the same ones he looks in there? it s a story, it s a story of a family. and this case is the story of my family. here, more or less, is where the whole thing takes off, garvey montana, deep in the veteran valley, the town conceived
,i personally approved the decision to seek a search warrant in this matter. second, the department does not take such a decision lightly where possible. it is standard practice to seek less intrusive means as an alternative to a search and to narrowly scope any search that is undertaken took them long enough to say something without taking any questions. and he was about an hour late. garland s mission was not a surprise. after all, this is the man who spearheading the most wide ranging investigation into department history with the january six probe. i don t know if you ve noticed this the same merrick garland who used the department of justice and the fbi to target parents as the terrorist, which we know they are for exercising their right to free speech. a school board meetings, which we televise a lot of it and play it back even more of it. and while merrick garland has done nothing to even attempt to reduce skyrocketing violent crime, which is all around us in major cit