what a wonderful world the supreme court hasn t yet ruled on mississippi s restrictive abortion law, but some states are already preparing for a future without roe. even if the court doesn t eliminate a woman s constitutional right to an abortion, access to reproductive health services could be severely limited for many women. at least 21 states have laws to restrict legal abortion if roe is overturned. 14 states in the district of columbia for laws that protect legal abortion. and in some states lawmakers are realizing they don t have state laws protecting legal abortion if roe is overturned like virginia. tonight democrats in the state legislature are working to change that before republicans take control of the statehouse and republican governor elect
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potentially stealing biden votes. the daily beast reports the kanye 2020 campaign committee didn t even report paying some of these republican advisers and used an odd abbreviation for another moves which campaign finance experts say appear designed to mask the association between gop operatives and them campaign and could constitute a violation of federal laws. eugene, it s clear republicans wanted to hide their connections to kanye. but, come on, i remember during the campaign and i m sure you did, too, we all knew. we all been done knew this was going on, right? right. i mean the reporting in this story makes it pretty clear it s possible even kanye didn t know this was happening, there were republicans within the campaign. and what s really, really interesting i think trying to unspool this and figure out what happened here sounds like it s going to be impossible not
governor, what s you ran for lieutenant governor in 2018. what s changed since then in terms of fears about how republicans are restricting the access to vote? well, there are lots of fears because we see how we see across this entire country how many voter suppression bills were introduced in state legislatures. and we also saw everything, again, come to a head on january 6th, chaos unimaginable. and that happened right in front of our very eyes. so there s very real fear about not just voter suppression but voter intimidation tactics. that s why the first thing i did was release a package of bills aimed at protecting our democracy, aimed at strengthening our democracy, making sure a vote will be realized for multiple voters in this country. lieutenant governor barnes of wisconsin, thanks have joining us tonight. thanks so much for having me. coming up, it is a race against the clock before control
pass protections on abortion. what other protections are we seeing at the grass roots level? i think it s important to note despite the efforts of people like delegate helmer there isn t a political will among democrats in virginia to codify roe v. wade. as much as the supreme court seems poised to do something very drastic this is not a crisis that s emerged overnight. republicans have for decades been attacking reproductive freedom any possible way they can. and at least according to the new york times the leadership of the democrats in virginia would prefer to go on vacation rather than spend political capital on this issue. republicans work overtime to block people from accessing abortion. so the real question right now is when democrats can no longer count on the federal courts to make sure that there s legal production for reproductive freedom, will they then step up? and that s happened in some