brownstein. ron, here we go again. good evening, sir. look, definitely this is a blow to president biden and to democrats and to the cause of voting rights that will reverberate throughout the mid-terms. it s going to reverberate and beyond, the next presidential election decades. right. so talk to me about the significance of what happened today. it s a momentous day. you can look at the failure now with kyrsten sinema saying she ll not accept any carve out of the filibuster for voting rights. you re now in a position where the road may be clear for the red states to proceed to steadily tighten the tourniquet on voting rights throughout this decade. i mean the supreme court has made clear it is not going to interfere. the roberts court has never overturned a state voting rights
you can look at the failure now with kyrsten sinema saying she ll not accept any carve out of the filibuster for voting rights. as well as joe manchin echoing that position. you re now in a position where the road may be clear for the red states to proceed to steadily tighten the tourniquet on voting rights throughout this decade. i mean the supreme court has made clear it is not going to interfere. the roberts court has never overturned a state voting rights restriction, in fact banged the gong with everything you re seeing with the shelby county decision, in 2013 eliminating the justice department clearance authority. and with manchin and sinema saying you need a super majority, a bipartisan super majority for congress to act, there may be no effective constraint on what the red states can do. so we could be in a period of a significant unwinding of civil liberties and civil rights that go beyond voting rights in the