there should be consequences and now we are in the throes of consequences. we in coaches county, being sued will have to find a lawyer to represent us and we won t be represented by the county attorney because the county attorney told us early on when you break the law i can t represent you. marc elias the voting rights litigation expert, and his law group is also suing the coaches county board of supervisors over the refusal to certify. he joins me now. marc i want to get into the specific case but before i do, we always do this have glass half empty half full sort of thing. but all the fears we had, this rogue county in arizona really does appear to be the only one doing this kind of flagrant frontal dereliction of their administrative and democratic duty? yeah i think that s right chris. there were two counties on monday that will fully fail to
supervisors defied state law monday, refusing to certify the counties midterm election results. states former attorney general and the former republican maricopa attorney said in a lot of the prosecutor should consider criminal charges adding that they take no pleasure in making this prosecution recommendation. for me a county wrote, this craziness has to stop. the county is now being sued by arizona secretary stop state, the lone democrat on the board voted to certify was blunt about the fallout. anytime you break the law there should be consequences and now we are in the throes of consequences. we in cochise county, being sued will have to find a lawyer to represent us and we won t be represented by the county attorney because the county attorney told us early on when you break the law i can t represent you. marc elias, the voting rights litigation expert, and
legislation. they are expected to vote against chuck schumer s plan which is not to get rid of the filibuster but change the rule on it for this one piece of legislation. so if those two democrats hold the line in tonight s vote, they keep the rules as is, it would be the first time either against the president s agenda. president biden wants the rules changed. in some ways this is an exercise for the majority of the democratic party to shine a light on the obstacles to voting rights as well as the peril that american democracy finds itself in today. joining me from the front lines is mark elias, founder of democracy docket and voting rights litigation expert. mark, they have been going for a while. they have been debating as the senate sort of is designed to do. how are you feeling right now watching this? look, i wouldn t be honest if i didn t tell you that i am saddened that it appears that this bill is not going to pass.