the scope of hurricane ian s devastation is becoming clearer for days after the category four storm slammed into the coast of southwest florida, with record-breaking strength. 85 people are dead, 81 in florida, and four in north carolina. the death toll rises each time rescue crews reached new areas. and searches are going on around the clock. but some people are still stranded and waiting for help, like these residents of sanibel island. there has been no communication, nobody official has come on to the island to tell us what is going on. we don t have places to go, we have no cars to get their. lack of food, medicine, clean water, and electricity. these are all on the list of tops concerns. more than 1 million people are still without power across four states. now, president biden says he and the first lady will travel tomorrow to puerto rico, which is still reeling from hurricane fiona, and tour damage in florida on wednesday. our hearts, to state the obvious, it
doesn t just do that for alabama. it does that for the entire country, which opens the floodgates to more discrimination against voters who are black, latino, native american, who are asian. anybody that poses a threat to the powers that be, who control state legislatures. it s about so we ll have to check me on this. the 27% of the voters in alabama are black. mark, the supreme court in a 54 decision earlier this year decided to stay that lower court ruling for two reasons. first, they said it was too close to an election. if it was february. we ll go with that. secondly, they said that it would review the case in session. in 2015, they gutted section four of the voting rights act. now, the voting rights act is on life support. if we lose section two, will it not be dead? it will be dead. because section two is, as maya said, the last best hope against racist voting
reversal of any untoward election results in 2024. he argues that the court will likely go along with them giving them the power that they need to through our election results and instead just have republican control state legislatures declare trump the winner. he says the supreme court is going that direction and will likely move that way. he also says that congress needs to change some laws right now to clarify that at least inside congress, that they cannot pull off whatever they were trying to get mike pence to do on january 6th, which they will undoubtedly try to get somebody else to do one 2024. and whether they could constrain vice president harris or do anything else with the electoral count to flip the results in their favor, judge is luttig basically sounding the alarm that this is not just some sort of right hearing, some rage wedge issue that republicans are pursuing, because they like it as a culture war thing that upsets the liberals. this is something that they have a pl
giving them the power that they need to throw out election results and instead just have republican control state legislatures declare trump the winner. he says the supreme court is going that direction and will likely move that way. he also says that congress needs to change some laws right now to clarify that at least inside congress, that they cannot pull off whatever they were trying to get mike pence to do on january 6th, which they will undoubtedly try to get somebody else to do one 2024. and whether they could constrain vice president harris or do anything else with the electoral count to flip the results in their favor, judge luttig basically sounding the alarm that this is not just some sort of right hearing, some wedge issue that republicans are pursuing, because they like it as a culture war thing that upsets the liberals. this is something that they have a plan for for 2024. and there are not going to be too many more hurdles in the way toward that mission. to that in, the
now, it s becoming a tool for congress. and so self-destructive. if republicans refused to do the right thing and appointing a bipartisan bicamera will. they re not fwoing to do the right thing paying their own debt. that s where we are. if they don t want to do the right thing as state legislatures and seize control of power from local election officials and basically are telling us all that years ahead of the presidential election that if they don t like how parts of their states voted, they re not going to count those votes. if republicans won t step into stop these out of control state legislatures. they re not going to do the right thing here. they re not going to pass the