hearing michael. let me go to elise while we get michael s sound straight. elise, i want to move on oh, am i hearing michael now? i think i hear michael. go ahead. i would say to you that the rittenhouse verdict is a horrific miscarriage of justice. you had a trial where the judge was often could be confused with someone on the defense team. and this is someone who has built his entire career on being tough on crime and being tough on defendants. but in this particular situation, he could have been confused for being the grandfather of the defendant or someone on his team and i think that s a sad situation to be in, given that two lives were lost. i would also say to you that the justice department has to examine the trial and how this entire situation was carried out, in that you had a man who had an illegal weapon and lived in another state and travel today wisconsin and shot two
people. and so, i would say to you that there was a miscarriage of justice with trial. but i would, also, encourage the attorney general to take a serious look at this case and figure out whether it was done properly. yeah. i think, congressman jerry nadler called on the justice tempt department to look at this. i don t know where the grounds would be. but, elise, i want to move on to the biden agenda and the future of the build back better social spending bill. it passed the house on friday. and now, heads to the senate. but just because it passed the house does not mean it will pass the senate. but can we expect things to go more smoothly in the senate, this time around? rev, i think the democrats are on a glide path to getting build back better passed. the second week or so before the senate goes into december recess, mid-december. it you know, probably some of the climate provisions are going
documentary as in the malcolm x case, for this kind of wrongful conviction to be overturned. now, one bit of good news is there is a bipartisan movement, still, for criminal justice reform. the governor in oklahoma is a republican. and there are wrongful-conviction units now in many district attorney offices. and you have new district attorneys, like alvin bragg, the new manhattan district attorney. possibly, the most high-profile local prosecutor in the country. he says that we have to show that you can have safety and fairness and justice and i think that s an important role for prosecutors to play. yeah. i i can t let you go without your brief take on the topic of voting rights. we often reference the brennen center s work on this topic. as of last month, at least, i believe, 19 states have enacted at least 33 restrictive voter laws. where do we go from here?
successfully prove his innocence down the line, he would hardly be the first black man exonerated years after the fact. indeed, the same day as jones s commutations, two men wrongfully committed wrongfully convicted, i should say, of the assassination of malcolm x in 1966 were officially cleard of wrongdoing by a new york judge. mr. waldman, what do these cases, these particularly, these two cases tell us about the state of our criminal justice system? well, they tell us, i think, something good and something that should continue to concern us a great deal. it s a good thing that even looking backwards, that we ve been able to find the flaws in this system. and give a measure of justice to these individuals. but it should not take celebrities pushing, as in the case of mr. jones with kim kardashian-west, or a netflix