Alabama has argued that drawing a second district for black voters would itself be racially discriminatory because it would favor black voters at the expense of other voters. yet, with all that, it appears after this for past week, the conservative majority on the supreme court is poised to uphold the map. do you have first of all, do i have all that right, mister attorney general? yet, you do have it right. african americans comprise about 27% of the population in alabama. the black population in alabama is sufficiently numerous and geographically compact so that you could draw a second black opportunity district, which is consistent with the voting rights act passed in 1965, interpreted by the supreme court previously, reauthorized overwhelmingly by congress. every time it was reauthorized, it was signed by a republican president. for them to rule against the
The kid who lost their game at recess in elementary school and throwing a tantrum and lying about it, and you know, they re acting luke a bunch of sore losers. you almost feel sorry for them except that as you were just saying the stakes here are immense. it s the future of our democracy. and you know, i have been thinking about this for a lot of years because i had the privilege of arguing the voting rights act case back in 2011, that law from 1965 that safeguarded the right of the every american to vote. and that law had been reauthorized in 2006 by a vote in the republican a vote in congress in the house of 421 to 3. three team voted against it. when i argued it i won 8-1 in the supreme court with only clarence thomas dissents. two years later shelby county flipped its views and struck down the voting rights act, and
She s visited afghanistan many times. one of the big highlights from the report is the log jam for translators to obtain approval. the chief of mission has to okay from the state department, but only 11% of the current applicants have it. so why the hold up? most of them don t have papers because passports were burned by the embassy when kabul was falling. but they were left without any kind of credentials to prove they work for the state department. you re right. that s one of the major reasons that we haven t been able to get those afghans back to the united states. unfortunately, when the siv program was set up back in 2009, it was set up not as a permanent program, but it had to be reauthorized. the number of visas had to be redone, and that has really
Guy whose home state, these guys don t even think social security should be guaranteed. they want to on the ballot every five years. every five years has to be reauthorized. they pay for it. and the kind of wisconsin, he concluded that it should be every single year. every single, you are set to vote on whether or not you keep social security. whether you keep, it cut, it changes, it roll over. what s going on here, man? this is not the country that most of you this is not the country most republicans, most republicans represent the state support for the longest time. and so, folks, look, the fact is that when you have social security that s under attack, when you have medicare that s under attack, one refusal to stick with finding and making sure the circumstance where you have some access to health care, this is, again, we can change things. and we re going to change for the better. you know, here s the deal.
Biden administration, to congress today? we re the backbone of the economy, it all starts with small business. and inflation pressures, workforce pressures, a possible recession, we need the assistance of our congress to help us move forward. and one thing that is so important to us is the reauthorization of the sba. it hasn t been reauthorized, small business administration. are you preparing for a recession in the next six months? i think as a small business owner we are all it has been a crazy two years of just constant what s next, right. so we re all managing risks every day. and it is definitely a possibility. bank of america says yes, a recession is likely this year. citigroup said she s not seeing anything in the data saying we re on the cusp of a recession. what do you think? do you think the u.s. will be in recession in the next six months? i think it is hard to predict. i think it is uncertain.