the whole civil war was about states rights versus the union. when you see, as the brennan report says, that you have 17 states that s already changed 34 laws, we are in the process of states going into a states rights model that there s no collective union response to, to protect people from a federal law against states deciding not only who can vote or who would be easier to vote but who s going to count the votes, and if they get away with this model, it will go to states deciding on women s right to choose, states deciding on affirmative action. we are slowly going into an undemocratic states rights country, and people need to be alarmed about it and the senate needs to be alerted with all that we can about it. and driven by one party. i mean, a hyperpartisan one at that, rev.