you wrote a piece titled, how manchin and sinema completed a conservative vision. it ll play out before our eyes today. what do you mean? yes. it s a mistake to believe republican efforts to make it harder to vote just arose with donald trump and the big lie. in fact, if you look at the chief justice, john roberts at the supreme court, he has on a four decade quest to roll back federal guarantees of voter prot protections, all the way back to the reagan administration when he served as a young assistant in the justice department and opposed the a key element of the bipartisan extension of the voting rights act in 1992. he wrote that it should be very hard for the federal government to intervene in what states do because it s the most intrusive interference imaginable, his phrase, in state prerogative s. fast forward to 2014. supreme court on a 5-4 party line basis, with all the republican appointed justices outvoting all the democratic