state legislature theory. it is the bunkers theory that trump lawyer john eastman was pushing on 16. right now, republicans control both legislative houses in 30 states. meaning, if this theory is enshrines by the supreme court, those republican state lawmakers will have the ability to choose their own congressional districts look like, but who should run in them, and how an election, both congressional and presidential is decided. they will have the parted throats foes in swing states like georgia and michigan, without any state court oversight, and all with the blessing of the supreme court. to be clear, the conservative justices on the highest bench in the land, having overturned roe v. wade, are now only months away from helping to overturn american democracy as we know it. for now, though, we still have a democratic president, and democratic house and democratic senate. so, shouldn t they be doing
georgia, my home state, i think those have been wildly exaggerated, the effect of those. and i think there s a lot of hyperbole going on so i don t think necessarily democracy is at risk through some of those laws right now, but that doesn t mean that there aren t efforts under way that we need to be cautious of, particularly as we ve seen in georgia, you have people running for secretary of state running on the concept that the election was stolen. so those are the things that i m worried about. ron brownstein, final observation. another brilliant piece in the atlantic in which you wrote about what the republicans are up to out on a grassroots level. we ll put it up on the screen. reducing access to mail balloting and early voting, imposing new voter identification requirements, purging voters from registration lists, limiting the use of ballot drop boxes, blocking state court oversight of voting laws, and increasing republican state officials authority to override the decisions
georgia, my home state, i think those have been wildly exaggerated, the effect of those. i think there s a lot of hyperbole going on so i don t think necessarily democracy is at risk through some of those laws right now, but that doesn t mean that there aren t efforts under way we need to be cautious of, particularly as we ve seen in georgia, you have people running for secretary of state running on the concept that the election was stolen. so those are the things that i m worried about. ron brownstein, final observation. another brilliant piece in the atlantic in which you wrote about what the republicans are up to out on a grassroots level. we ll put it up on the screen. reducing access to mail balloting and early voting, imposing new voter identification requirements, purging voters from registration lists, limiting the use of ballot drop boxes, blocking state court oversight of voting laws an increasing republican state officials authority to override the decisions of local el