appointed justices, passes the shelby county rule, undermines section 5, the preclearance provision, the centerpiece of the 1965 voting rights act. that bangs the gong, john, for what happens in the states, both in terms of the states directly covered and in other republican-controlled states, by signaling the supreme court wasn t going to get in their way. we saw, initially, more voting purges, poll closings, voter id laws. after 2020, this wave of 19 states that passed 34 laws, making it harder to vote, all on a party line majority rules basis. there is no state that has a filibuster. all of the efforts to make it tougher to vote have unfolded on party line, majority rule votes, but because of manchin and sinema s refusal to exempt voting rights from the filibuster, the one place where you now need to bipartisan supermajority to protect voting rights, the senate. that structural imbalance is the wall democrats will run into today and, in fact, is the wall
the founders of the country do not want the present with government payoffs in the intervention of foreign governments. what do we do? the emolument clause, the department of justice has long-standing rules about standing and raised the defense standing against congress, private parties, groups, and it is pretty well established law. i had to get your information. can you clarify that? as attorney general, you would be a defender of the voting rights of the people. americans face a number of voting right crisis is. puerto rico and other territories. 650,000 people in washington, d.c., who have no voting representation in congress. continue voting purges and repression. we have warnings from our
it s a little bit right now in nor fl florida like alice in wonderland. the only thing missing is the chechire cat and the rabbit. you talk about voting purges. that is only one part of voter suppression laws. we ve seen the legislature and the governor cut early voting days in half, and that s in spite of the fact that people were waiting for four hours and longer last presidential election during early voting. we ve seen elimination of the most popular early voting day of all before election day, particularly for minorities. we ve seen imposition of many more people are going to need to cast provisional ballots this year, and, of course, the restrictions against groups like ours who are only trying to bring new, eligible voters in the election process.