does not agree with that. marc elias was one of the strongest supporters of this bill because he knew all this work couldn t be done in court. merrick garland, the attorney general, got up before the country a few days ago and said that congress needed to act to give the justice department the power it needed to go to court to fight some of these voter suppression measures. and what s really disturbing about these arguments is that the filibuster, as amy klobuchar pointed out, has been changed again and again and again. mitch mcconnell changed the filibuster to help put three republican appointees on the supreme court with just 51 votes. so it s absolute nonsense to treat the filibuster rules as some sacred writ, especially sacred writ that came from the founders because the filibuster didn t even exist for the first 17 years of the congress and arguably came into effect kind
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hand. we don t want to silence it. it doesn t have to cost a person their life because an ambulance can t get through or a man can t get home from work. you can protest in an appropriate place and manner. that s first amendment law. that s why it s a place across the street from the president rather than right next to the president. they get to make their point but they don t get to take over the city. and when you see the protesters taking over the city, then all of a sudden the police have the impression that they are supporting them, not him. there s no question he was supporting the protesters and not the police. giuliani says he disagrees with the desilcision by the pol officers to turn their back on de blasio at the hospital and will yet bratton was asked if the mayor has lost the confidence of the confidence of the nypd police force. here s what he said on the today show. i think he s lost it with
he is still going to be mostly talking about community issues, is what we ve been told. he just got here after visiting the officers families this morning. he just got here and he got in the elevator and is now heading upstairs and the police commissioner a short time later and they are both upstairs. these are mostly donors, people who donate to this program which helps sort of support them and help reduce crime to keep kids off the street and that s what this program is about. i think he ll focus a lot about that. it s really to sort of work together. that s what we expect here, wolf. it will be an important speech and i know the mayor and police commissioner will hold a joint news conference later this afternoon.
york police benevolent society, that angered so many cops in new york in the aftermath of the eric garner death? well, a couple of things. the mayor has supported the police both materially and verbally in the ways that newt just asked him to do. he has disavowed violence and disruption in the city. he s been criticized, in particular, by some of the police unions for his speech in a staten island church after the grand jury decision in which he talked about his bi-racial son dante needing to be careful, wary in his potential encounters with police officers. in that poll you showed, reverend butts, really gets to the heart of the matter here. the police for all their good work? driving down crime over the past decade or longer, now many of them feel that they are being blamed. they are the ones being held responsible by a lot of people