forces in america. from the voting rights crackdowns and assorted government plots, to the big lie attacks on election results that can stoke actual insurrections. we know the u.s. has faced many different types of crises before, but this era has been a perfect storm of right wing demagogues, weaponized propaganda from the internet to the fox news defamation we covered, and this is key, the perfect storm includes a high powered, elite driven effort to main streak attacks on democracy and try to write them into our rules. and that part of the effort is not, let s be clear, criminal activity like january 6th. it s not something people are going to go to jail for. it is what at least lawyers and others call arguably legal attacks that are still designed to hijack democracy from within. this is our top story tonight, because this brings us to efforts to bend or break current laws and rules, to try to foster more anti-democratic outcomes that would be technically legal if these pe
he is the author of the fire bird, the elusive fate of russian democracy. appreciate you making time for us again. how are you? thank you. so-so looking to moscow, looking to what happens in my motherland. that does not give you good mood, you know. right, not a good mood, and again, as with all foreign coverage, we have to only imagine for a moment if it was our homeland, if we were there and if there s many people we mentioned this whether it s russia, china, or iran, there s tons of innocent people living their lives, but under this type of government. as we try to make sense of the question i just mentioned, what should we understand about how this started and what the pullback meant. well, you started actually showing my comment when we met before, and you know, i meant
politics, even if it s the democrats doing it. you make an important point that because this is being argued, people have to say what they stand for. we showed the insurrection. we all know that was just big lite. in court they have to argue, they basically had to say out loud our position is we can draw what i just showed, something that s obviously not democracy, self-dealing. that s called corruption, right? and no one can review it. and so roberts here, he s not saying anything that i view as all that grandiose for civil rights. he s just saying, reading from the opinion, the constitution does not exempt state legislators from the ordinary constraints imposed by state law. in other words, you can t just say i m exempt or i m all powerful and that was what they had to admit. now, i also want to go to the baseline here ofroberts. we ve covered this before. when it comes to chief justice roberts he is making these shifts as rev mentioned, and yet, he is also the person who
here we have a ruling of 4 to 5 of some voting rights, a basic standard and adds another rebuke to the coup plotters like trump lawyer john eastman who s facing other setbacks this week as california considers yanking his law license. when i tell you tonight this is a big story out of the supreme court, that s because it s national news. if you hadn t heard about this case that much, well, it s with one of those times if it went the other way you d have heard about it for years because it would have rewired democracy. this for some people seems like a victory, it definitely had a bypass coalition. for others it s a warning, and for others still it s a reminder of something we ve talked about on this program and heard from our experts about, that the fight for democracy in america is not something that is over, that is complete, nor is america, if we define income as a place where we all get to vote a very old democracy. at best we re a young democracy. and we need coalitions of people
forces in america. from the voting rights crackdowns and assorted government plots, to the big lie attacks on election results that can stoke actual insurrections. we know the u.s. has faced many different types of crises before, but this era has been a perfect storm of right wing demagogues, weaponized propaganda from the internet to the fox news defamation we covered, and this is key, the perfect storm includes a high powered, elite driven effort to main streak attacks on democracy and try to write them into our rules. and that part of the effort is not, let s be clear, criminal activity like january 6th. it s not something people are going to go to jail for. it is what at least lawyers and others call arguably legal attacks that are still designed to hijack democracy from within. this is our top story tonight, because this brings us to efforts to bend or break current laws and rules, to try to foster more anti-democratic outcomes