President lyndon b. Johnson signed the Voting Rights act into law. Removing legal barriers for black voters, johnson not only made a quality at the ballot box of reality for everyone but he also ensured this nations laws matched its revered ideals. And yeah, its over the ensuing indicates protections under the act have been chipped away. Most notably after the 2013 Supreme Court decision in shelby v. Holder which made it easier for states to pass restrictive voting laws. Still, the outcome of our elections and our democracy held firm. Until january six 2020 line. An angry red violent mob stormed the capitol driven by one terrified goal. Overturn a free and Fair Election. They were motivated by the lives of one. Dan donald j trump. The new twice impeached thrice indicted for now former president of the United States. That dark day expose just how fragile american democracy, our democracy, really is. But, trump is now finally facing accountability for trying to illegally stated. Power th
The Supreme Court today making it a reality and making history settling an issue thats been unclear since reconstruction. All nine justices deciding that neither colorado nor any other state can bar him under the 14th amendment, Section Three insurrection language quoting from the opinion, quote, we can clued that states may disqualify persons holding or attempting to hold state office, but states have no power under the constitution to enforce Section Three with respect to federal offices, especially the presidency. The opinion was per curiam, meaning not attributed to any specific justice however, in a concurrence that you might say reads more like a dissent justices sonia sotomayor, elena kagan, and Ketanji Brown jackson take issue with the rulings broadness, which they suggest is to quote, insulate this court and petitioner from future controversy. The petitioner, of course, being donald trump, asked for him he praised the ruling, then pivoted to the courts. Next big decision on pr
Surgeon in new polls while his republican rivals cant catch up. Ill ask the lincoln product cofounder, luke wilson, about the Republican Partys current identity crisis. Later, georgia on our mind. Fulton county d. A. , fani willis, hints that indictments in the Election Interference case could drop very soon. A key witness who was just subpoenaed join us lies to explain. Hell tell the grand jury about that fake electors plot. All of that and more, it is coming up. A good Sunday Morning to you all. I am katie phang. Now we know about that dramatic ending in the United States Womens National soccer teams world cup match against sweden. Were going to get to that in just a moment. Were going to start this hour with the Clock Ticking down to a serious deadline stemming for former president s third indictment. Even before he goes before d. C. Judge, tanya chunk, and for the first time later this month, shes already dealt him a legal blow. Judge Tanya Chutkan denied more time for a trump want
For donald trump. Well he has got a message on his own plus the Breaking News out of taiwan. Have you seen the images already . A massive earthquake rattles the island. The strongest quake and italy, quarter of a century, a live update and just moments tonight alarm codes lie all right, by now, weve all heard about the undecided right. But President Biden his face and what we maybe his mode worrying opponents so far in the battleground state of wisconsin, the uncommitted, theyre coming, theyre counting switching those primary votes as we speak. And now weve got another vocab term to consider. The uninstructed so far there are more than 37,000 votes for uninstructed and even though biden won easily, 37,000 votes is nothing and erase as tight as this he said another warning to the president on his handling of israels war in gaza. And the risk it poses for his chances at reelection. President biden even running a statement that this evening that is real as quote, not done enough to protec
Appeals. You are watching fox and friends first, im todd piro. Carley im carley shimkus. Now that bond is posted, they say they are ready to get it thrown out. Brooke singman is here. Brooke the former president taking to truth social shortly after post ing bond. I just posted 175 million bond based on a corrupt judge ands Attorney General. This con job is so bad for new york, businesses are fleeing and Violent Crime is flourishing. He originally owed 454 million, but an Appeals Court cut that by half. Leticia james is banned from collecting the full judgement while this plays out. He says he looks forward to vindicating his right and overturning this unjust verdict employs Vivek Ramaswamy slamming the case against trump, listen. This is weaponized system of justice. Same shoe on the other foot, what would the Media Opinion be . S going after political opponents in middle of an election, that is not what the United States is supposed to be, that is the stuff of banana republics. We are