that democrat josh shapiro when the governor s race in the midterms. democrats are now on track to get some big things accomplished. access to abortion will likely be safeguarded. a minimum wage hike is also any work. lgbtq pennsylvania s are likely to gain new protections and police reform, gun control measures, green energy measures, could be on the table. in short, as we d like to say every time on this show, every election matters when the vote count. coming up on the second hour of ayman, breaking news, a third high altitude object has been found. this one in northern canada. plus, president biden goes on offense after a state of the union effect and republicans are running scared. undermining democracy. new conservative majority on the north carolina supreme court might overrule past decisions that protected voting rights. i am ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. we begin this hour with our breaking coverage of a third unidentified object, shot down over north america
the other two won the races by 50 and 75 points. for months on this show, we have been covering the chaos that ensued when due to a series of unexpected issues, three seats won by democrats in the november elections were left vacant. pennsylvania republicans took that opportunity to in effect, steal their way to a majority in the state house. clearly ignoring the will of the people by pretending that they had a majority while those seats remained unfilled. but now that those special elections have been held and the winner settled, it seems like a more drama free environment will be coming into effect because democrats will now control the commonwealth s legislature for the first time in a dozen years as we mentioned earlier. and it is coupled with the fact that democrat josh shapiro won the governor s race in the midterms. democrats are now on track to get some big things accomplished. access to abortion will likely be safeguarded. a minimum wage hike is also any work. lgbtq
two years of biden s term have been amongst the most successful for a president in 60 years. if he can tell that tale and then draw that contrast by putting folks like rick scott, mike lee, making them the face of that. and letting the republicans innocence negotiate for and against themselves by debating internally amongst the caucus, it is a chefs kiss scenario for biden and the democrats. and you will be seeing a lot more of it going into the yeah. panel, please stick around. we will come back to you later in the hour. ahead north carolina attorney joins me in the state supreme court s efforts to undermine our democracy. uniquely made to prep, protect, and maintain. whether i m smoother than smooth or au naturale. this is the new way to care for down there.
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that had already been decided. one is a redistricting case that has since made its way to the supreme court. moore versus harper a case we have discussed a lot on the show, north carolina republicans asked the supreme court to intervene after two of their congressional maps were struck down by state courts because of partisan gerrymandering. at the center of these cases of fringe theory that we have talked about before, it s called the independents state legislator clause which republicans have used to argue that the constitution, gives state legislators the power to determine rules in federal elections. the other case centers on voter i. d. requirements, in december you might remember the supreme court strikes down a voter identification law, ruling that republicans intentionally discriminated against black voters. since 1993 the north carolina supreme court has only re-heard two cases, and now, in the short time since the quart