Katyal: GOP Lawyer During SCTOUS Hearing 'Tried To Nullify The Voting Rights Act' | The Last Word
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- Neal Katyal, former acting U.S. Solicitor General, tells Lawrence O'Donnell that the lawyer representing Republicans at a Supreme Court hearing argued that the Voting Rights Act "should basically have no teeth to it and that ran into hot water from even the conservatives on the court" because the Republican argument was "contrary to the plain text of the law." Aired on 03/03/2021.
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Katyal: GOP Lawyer During SCTOUS Hearing 'Tried To Nullify The Voting Rights Act' | The Last Word
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As far as I'm concerned, anybody suppressing the votes of legally registered voters no matter the color of their skin or zip code they live belongs in prison. Enough is enough of this malarkey.
GQP can't win on their merits, because they don't have any
SPOT ON! THEIR TREASONOUS SNAKES.
@@cowboykelly6590 'THEY'RE'*
And are not likely to get any
@@angaeltartarrose6484 Maybe they own treasonous snakes???? 😆
I'm glad to see I am not the only one calling them the GQP now. That is all they are and you are so correct they have nothing to offer in the form of policies that work for ALL Americans.
Australians and I am guessing the rest of the world do not think of America as a Democracy. Voting rights are human rights.
That was strong!! Thank you!!
and making sure the vote is legal is a right of Americans
@@davidgoldman9820, so true, sadly, all the illegal votes were cast by known republicans.
The REPUBLICANS THINK ONLY WHITES SHOULD VOTE!
It is DISGUSTING and WE DEMOCRATS AND NAACP WILL FIGHT THAT IDEOLOGY TOOTH AND NAIL! KEEP WATCHING AND HAVE FAITH IN US SIR.
WE ARE TRYING OUR BEST TOO COMBAT "THE TREASONOUS SNAKES!
@@davidgoldman9820 : yes Sir !
That's why we DEMOCRATS WILL WORK HARD TO STOP THE REPUBLICANS...
ONLY WHITES VOTE HERE ATTITUDE .
That lawyer said the quiet part out loud.
Why? Because the GOP's position becomes less popular each year as they shift further and further right. As they marginalize themselves, they look for ways to win other than in a fair contest.
Anything that Neal Katyal is on I want to watch
He's just that smart and has the inside edge
Sheila
When you have one (of 2) political parties saying,"if I lose, the system is corrupt",people need to take a look at that political party, not the system. P-Donny had 4+ years to do something/ANYTHING, to fix the "broken system", and did nothing (because nothing was broken!). Its like saying, "yeah, I'll play you in a game of chess, but if you win, the game is corrupt".
Curious how they don't put the same fervor into a platform and policies that people will vote for!
Follow the money.. it's that simple.
The GOP has no platform. True. It did not write one for the 2020 campaign.
They've created a captive audience, they don't need policies.
The election districts have been gerrymandered (redrawn) to 1). create democrat only districts, which effectively nullify people's votes and 2). create republican majority districts which require a massive swing to return someone other than GoP.
Opposition voters are discouraged from voting by closing polling stations in their locality which causes the double whammy of forcing to voters to travel further to vote and then join long queues at their new "local" polling station.
Republican voters are locked into Fox, and worse, for "news" which only echo and perpetuate the GoP lies and misinformation.
While the GoP complains about "cancel culture" they are trying to cancel democracy itself.
Because they have no policies just one keep their knee on black people necks
Anti-abortionism .How their people post about killing babies .no matter what the article is about.
I guess nominating a honest candidate that cares about the people isn't an option the Repubs want to consider?
They would rather stack the SCOTUS with misfits, stoke misinformation over and over and suppress their own citizens, from even the basics to survive, on a daily basis, as long as they can cheat and fill their pockets. Disgusting
They can't say it, but "an honest candidate that cares about the people" would definitely *not* please their biggest political donors.
honest candidates.. ??? Remember , the Republican party is the party of Joe McCarty, Nixon , Agnew and Trump ......among others ....Honesty is an outdated principle in the Republican party...
They have absolutely no ideas!!! That's why all you will ever hear them say are the same lies over and over!! Immigrants are coming for your jobs, Democrats want your guns and don't forget Democrats are socialists!!! Meanwhile, the red states receive more handouts than blue states!! That is verified and checked fact!!! They are weak lying cowards and people that vote for them aren't any better!!! They all thought they were so tough on January 6th, why don't they come forward and say hey, it was me!! I am a patriot, here I am!! Instead of all getting caught hiding in their mother's basement!!! And having mommy cry about the food they are feeding them and they mean old jailers aren't cutting the crust off her babies bread? Lol!!!
So why do honest Americans consider Republicans?
Why not have a uniform FEDERAL voting rights act, enforcing uniformity, superceding and eliminating states differences and local laws ?
That’s not the problem though.
YES...voter rights assured federally is a bill currently coming up!! Get your senator and rep to back it!!!
Agent orange - I won, if you only count the legal votes.
GoP - let's make illegal to vote for the opposition.
gop :TRYING TOO MAKE..
WHITES ONLY VOTE!!
@Helen Smith: taking a leaf out of China's playbook who has just made it impossible for pro-democracy candidates to run for office on Hong Kong.
!
Come on, Neal, you know exactly why they are afraid of voters...
That's likely true. But it still is more powerful to let the listener come to the conclusion on her/his own.
One voice, One Vote. Seems Constitutional to me
What country has that, Switzerland?
The 14th amendment section 3 says that our elected officials who take part or help an insurrection can’t hold public office.
How many seats is that?
I agree we need the John Lewis Voting Rights Act!!!
That's where the Republican Party is now. That lawyer said the quite part out loud. Their support of democracy is conditional. Their support depends on them picking the voters in order to deliver the desired outcome for them. They could try to make a case to broaden their support but a too constrained by their ideological purity (which now is all about fealty to their Supreme Leader) and would rather use the politics of subtraction.
Isn’t that what Putin does? And others!
@@katherinejones850 Not quite, Putin's political opponents seem to a have a way of disappearing, ending up in jail, accidentally poisoned or ending up in the path of a bullet.
@@dmac7128 Yes , here in France, Russian oligarchs have a bad habit of falling down stairs or out of windows.
How is this even an issue in the 21st century? Civilised countries sorted out universal voting a hundred years ago.
AND Universal Healthcare!!!
The right to sue or a hearing is useless right to poor people.
VOTING IS YOUR INCREMENTAL law suit
Not exactly true
although I can sympathize with the way you feel, the right to access to the courts under the 6th amendment is granted to every person in America regardless of your financial situation or any other forbidden criteria, such as religious beliefs, race, sexual orientation, ect., ect. When you draft the complaint you also file a Forma Pauper affidavit or a fee waiver because you do not have the ability to pay the filing fees. I hope that this has set aside any thoughts you may have had that would discourage you from filing a legitimate lawsuit should a situation arise in the future.
Luv Sonia Sotomayor she is the best of America
sometimes it takes a strong woman to cut through the B.S.
GOD BLESS AMERICA "OUR" HOME SWEET HOME.
"OUR" ! MEANING "ALL" THE PEOPLE!!
NOT JUST A WHITE VOTING SYSTEM!!
She is following beloved Ruth Bader Ginsburg..
Bless her...
It's time for each and every voters that being suppress by GOP to bring the matter to courts individually.. lets see if they can afford being sued by millions of legal voters who were denied access to vote..
As well as a Class Action Suit for those of us who cannot afford to go it alone.
@ Tina Beana
I like that idea, so every voting cycle, we flood the court with individual voters suppression law suits, so the world can tell America go f, yourself, if they ever wanna go in observe another country election.Thats brilliant...America you can never set foot in my country to see if there was voting irregularities, until you clean up your mess with all those voter suppression law, you have enacted.
I think that you should really seriously do that. I would contact the United nations Human rights department.
The last of the honorable republicand died with John McCain.
... Maybe even earlier..
I miss Teddy
@@jrave5353 I almost asked "Who's Teddy?"
Then I realized; "Oh THAT Teddy".
And I'm with ya, brother. 100%
I'd say Mitt Romney has integrity.
I may not agree with his politics, but he wasn't afraid to stand up and break the blind lock step march of the rest of the GOP.
@@LoboKhan1 I wouldn't call it integrity. He's still anti-America, trying to destroy rights and freedoms while making the rich richer. But he wasn't willing to go open treason with the insurrection to do it. Mostly because he's an "old school Republican", who wants to enslave America and sell it off for profit. He's not with the new Republicans who want to destroy the country in its entirety and burn the Constitution.
President Biden's patience in dealing with the Republicans is truly amazing. No other President from the Democratic party would've had the Patience to listen to them.
Obama actually did remember.. He knew they didn't like him because he was mixed with black so to them, a black man.. That is extreme patience..
@@Swnsasy true.
Biden learned his lesson as VP during the Obama Admin. He will try to reach across the aisle and listen to Republicans, but he has enough wisdom and experience to know when to go it alone with his Democratic controlled House and Senate, and with immediate action do what he believes is best for the country. The GOP has a history of partisan delays of stonewalling, sabotaging, and obstructing almost every policy introduced by Democrats. This is why nothing seems to get done in DC. Biden knows this very well, so there will be a limit to his patience when dealing with these Republicans.
@andrew zgodaAre you the You Tube police. Stop telling other people what to do.
biden has no brain not patience !!!! He feels nothing. He was installed and the mutual flattering between him and nasty pelosi proves that. Why democRats don’t see or show that???
I really like this guy. 🥰
I thought he was going offline once 45 was voted out of office.
If you are referring to Neal, Katie Couric has had him on her TH-cam channel multiple times in the last couple of months. The videos are very informative.
You can follow his thoughts on Instagram daily
He also has (or had) a news bit thing with Ari.
Any legally registered American voter has the right to vote for whatever party they want that's how a Democratic Country works. The RNC lawyer summed it up, If we can't restrict voting we can't win.
Liberals always take out words they don’t like when quoting !!!! Republicans want fraudulent votes out not just any vote !!!!
Stop mischaracterizing
@@biloz2988 liberals are telling the truth and you clearly are not. Repubs cannot find the numbers so they cheat by their own admission . We have watched it with our own eyes and heard it with our own ears.. Until your party starts embracing facts, truth, science, and regects lies propagated by the xprez, along with wild eyed conspiracy thearys and falsehoods, youll continue to lose.
@@milokimble5245 time will show
America the great democracy,what a joke.
In case you’re posting from abroad, do come for a visit after the pandemic has subsided.
I recommend the barbecue.
Best Wishes from Hogtown, Florida.
Why do Americans have to register to vote. Is it not a civil right that every citizen has the right to vote regardless of party affiliation ?.
Because wypipo.
Why isn’t Neal on Biden’s cabinet??
He probably doesn't want to be.
One of his positions is as Professor of National Security Law at Georgetown University Law Centre. If they all learn his principles, I'd say he's doing a good job where he is. I thought he might have had a chance at AG, but I'm not too sure what background would be needed for that.
He should be. 👌👌👊
You would never get anyone that good voted in by the Quisling Republican in Democrat clothing, Manchin. Neal’ll probably get offered an appointed post? Whether he takes it is another thing
cause he is a loser
The United States is in dire need of a constitutional amendment explicitly affirming the right to vote. Whereas what you currently have is a piecemeal system prohibiting the government from restricting the vote on certain grounds, which is far from the universal suffrage that is enjoyed by most other western democracies.
Yes but the SCOTUS messed that up, remember ?
@@franc9111 How? When?
@@Ngamotu83 They evicerated the Voting Rights Act
@@franc9111 That didn't affirm the right of all Americsns to vote, nor was it a Constitutional Amendment.
It's still wild to me that in the U.S. you have to register to vote.
Republicanism needs to be listed in the DSM-5
Appropriate term should be trumpism.
@@agavezealot1294 this attitude existed before widdle donnie. He just supersized it.
Somewhere between AsPD and somehow both Grandiose and Vulnerable Narcissism. Maybe just Cluster B in general.
@@georgeb.wolffsohn30 Absolutely. Are you familiar with Paul Weyrich?
And white supremacy.
OK, so who spelled SCOTUS wrong ?
I thought it was a sleepy ME seeing it wrong.🥴
*SCTOUS
The make up of 9 justices in the Supreme Court does not represent the diversity of America. Also the same could be said of the majority of the states, mostly run by white Americans
I have so much respect for Stacey Abrams. That woman is a star !
why do state and local authority's have any voice in WHO votes, there only input into voting should be setting up the polling stations thats it.
You are absolutely right!
In England and probably many places, this is known as moving the goalposts.
Thank Y’all So Much 😊👊😷😷🇺🇸💯😇🙏‼️
The GOP is almost ready to raise a third finger. A few more gasps & it'll be time to meet Davy Jones, finally, whew . . .
As political commentator and former Republican presidential advisor Mark McKinnon so aptly put it just recently, "The Republican party is at dysfunction junction." May disagree with conservative ideology and with their stances on many issues, but do value and respect LOYAL opposition--a duty that the GOP has for too long forgotten and abdicated, putting personal and party interests before country. That is not only harmful to their party, it is harmful to our democracy and institutions. And it has come to represent a clear a present danger to our nation, a serious threat to our very security.
All of this is mentioned because it is firmly believed that this is not a time for diplomatic, soft-spoken words. This is not a time to be Pollyannaish about our current political landscape, but a time for frankness, a time for acknowledgment of defects, a time for confronting stark unpleasant realities. Our democracy is a fragile construct, only as sturdy, vibrant, and enduring as we maintain it, requiring constant vigilance and due diligence. Just as we don't forget Pearl Harbor, or 9/11, even more so the attack against our nation's Capitol on January 6, 2021 by fascist Reich-wing domestic terrorists incited to insurrection by a deranged President against his own government must never be forgotten or forgiven.
Thus, we MUST condemn both cowardly, corrupt Republican so-called "leaders" defying truth, justice, duty, democracy, and Constitution--and their dysfunctional political party that behaves as a cult--in the strongest possible terms, using the most muscular language that can be mustered. For it is necessary; the very fate of our nation depends upon it. Disaster was narrowly averted with the defeat of Trump, with Democratic control of the House and Senate, but the battle for the soul of this nation is far from over, and we must never again allow ourselves to become complacent. And so it is vitally imperative that we remind each other of this, that we impress these things upon our children and fellow citizens of this nation.
To the Voting Doesn't Matter Crowd,
You can stop now. Clearly.
Thanks,
Those trying to keep the right to vote
PASS H.R.1 NOW!!
Unfreakingbelievable!!!
Thanks again Neal for your expertise! Where's courtside this week? Can't find it. Please help?
THANK YOU, NEAL, for pronouncing 'gerrymandering' correctly. It's a HARD g, people, after Elbridge Gerry.
We need more Supreme Court Judges RIGHT NOW!
Neal, please give an opinion on getting rid of the filibuster.
All of Europe will hear of this.
Does Republican mean criminally minded🤦
Nothing could be clearer, the republican party fully understands that if the elections are free and fair, and all eligible voters who are registered to vote, they lose, period.
Neal Katyal has singlehandedly redeemed the name of "lawyer".
Over the last 5 years,
he has epitomized someone who has ethics, and is willing to state them...
straight, to the point, and in a court, under oath.
It has to be very difficult for him to have watched what has happened
to what he obviously believes to be a noble profession,
purloined by grifters
but, when you have a whole section of the country that wants to go backwards,
whose "wealth" depends on going backwards,
to a time that they've been told was golden,
but wasn't...
it's an uphill battle, and always will be...
How to Fix or Reform US Democracy and the Electoral System.
1) Shorten the Election Campaigns to 4-8 weeks maximum (like most other advanced democracies. This also helps to get money out of politics). Ridiculously long campaigns (18mths) are a waste of money, resources and time; time that should be spent governing the country and providing social programs for citizens needs, not campaigning for re-election.
2) Campaign finance reform (donations only via private citizens with strict donation limits, ban corporate funding and influence).
3) Voting Days to be held on the weekend (not Tuesday), and possibly in conjugation with Veteran’s Day Holiday. (Make it easier for all citizens to be able to vote).
4) Go back to reliable ‘hand marked pen and paper’ ballots publicly counted and scrutinized. Design simple to understand paper ballots, and do NOT use ‘Black Box’ electronic voting machines (EVMs) or ballot marking devices (BMDs), because any electronic devices are too easily hacked or manipulated to rig voting figures even if using ‘block-chain’ technology. Cyber-attacks can also be undetectable. www.coindesk.com/mit-paper-rejects-blockchain-based-voting-systems-elections
Paper ballots are more reliable and can be recounted if necessary. Democracy is too important to allow the possibility for cheating.
5) Stringent independent election audits to oversee and verify the result and eradicate election fraud.
6) Eliminate/abolish the Electoral College (Article 2, Section 1, of The Constitution). This would normally be difficult, because the Electoral College is constitutionally mandated, and abolishing it would require a constitutional amendment. Over the past 200 years more than 700 proposals have been introduced in Congress to reform or eliminate the Electoral College - without any becoming law. It requires two thirds of the House, two thirds of the Senate, and three quarters of the States to vote in favor.
There is another easier way to effectively end the Electoral College without technically abolishing it.
Agreement of the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote.
An organization called the ‘National Popular Vote Interstate Compact’ (NPVIC) is pushing to eliminate the Electoral College without tampering with the Constitution. Once the NPVIC has reached 270 electoral votes, the passed bills from all the states will kick in and guarantee that the candidate with the highest vote total nationwide would become the president.
So far, 15 states (CA, IL, NY, CO, CT, MD, MA, NJ, NM, OR, WA, DE, HI, RI, VT) and the District of Columbia (Total = 196 electoral votes) have committed to the cause. The bill has also passed at least one chamber in 9 additional states with 88 more electoral votes (AR, AZ, ME, MI, MN, NC, NV, OK, VA). So, we need 74 more electoral votes to eliminate the unfair influence of the Electoral College.
A total of 3,408 state legislators from all 50 states have endorsed it. www.nationalpopularvote.com/written-explanation
*American citizens need to become politically active to make this happen before the 2024 election.
7) Need for more political party diversity. Break-up the duopoly of the 2 major political parties (Democrats and Republicans) which has become an unofficial coalition serving only their corporate donors. Give voters real political choices rather than just the illusion of choice with just these 2 corrupted major political parties by corporate interests. There’s a need for at least a 3rd major party, possibly 4 or 5 major political parties like other advanced democratic countries. This would break up the duopoly, diversify the political landscape, and reduce the influence of corporate money corrupting the democratic system.
8) Get rid of First Past the Post (FPP) (sometimes called plurality) voting, and introduce some form of Proportional Representation (PR) Rank Choice Voting (RCV) preferably - Mixed Member Proportional Representation (MMP(R) with Multi-Member Districts.
MMP has voters select both a candidate in their local district and a party they'd like to win a majority. Everyone who wins a district gets a seat, and then additional seats are given out to ensure that parties are represented in proportion to their share of the party vote. This has a number of advantages. Unlike party list representation, people still have representatives with at least some ties to their local area.
Voters get 2 votes: one for their local representative, and one for their favorite party.
Mixed Member Proportional has familiar local representatives, and simple ballot.
9) Standardize the voting system nationally across all states.
10) Eliminate the need for political party registration (there’s no need to be affiliated to any political party, and it only encourages gerrymandering). No one should be loyal to just one political party. Force political parties to concentrate on policy to attract your vote.
11) Have polling stations available at all public schools (there must be enough polling places for everyone)
12) Ban voter suppression, introduce a 28th Amendment for the right of every citizen 18 years old and over the right to vote, or introduce mandatory voting (every eligible citizen votes - $50 fine if you don't vote)
Australia has mandatory voting and because of this 95% voter turnout.
By contrast in the US millions of voters are purged from voter rolls, and at least 40% of provisional ballots are thrown in the trash can and not counted. It’s just another method of rigging the electoral system.
13) Ban gerrymandering of districts to favor one political party. Independent commission should draw district lines, not partisan political parties. Voters should pick their politicians, NOT politicians their voters.
14) *Consider a Unicameral Congress (only House of Representatives needed to pass Bills. There's no need for the Senate to pass Bills, so situations like McConnell and the filibuster holding up important legislation cannot happen).
*(NZ is an advanced democracy and has a Unicameral Parliament which works very efficiently).
*(a Unicameral System is also one step closer to a direct democracy of all the common people).
Unicameral System: www.investopedia.com/terms/u/unicameral-system.asp
Bicameral System: www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bicameral-system.asp
(*The majority of international governments use the unicameral system-with a roughly 60/40 split between unicameral and bicameral.)
The only other option other than a unicameral system, is to make it mandatory for Bills passed in the House MUST be voted on immediately in the Senate. Mitch McConnell has sat on hundreds of Bills effectively blocking them from passing.
15) Have all sessions in Congress live streamed, so the public can view what is going on, and who is voting for what policies. Make politicians accountable.
16) Term limits on all politicians (Congressman and Senators) and judges (in particular Supreme Court justices - no lifetime appointments).
17) Balance the Supreme Court with non-partisan, impartial judges. Have rigorous vetting and confirmation process. (Amy Coney Barrett couldn’t even recite the rights of the 1st Amendment)
18) Voting Rights Act upgraded.
19) Election security strengthened. (Cyber security, independent scrutiny and audits)
20) Introduce political education into high schools at age 16 and older to prepare for voting. New voters need to understand how democratic systems work, how important it is to vote, how to engage in political activism, how laws are passed and brought into effect, how to interpret the Political Compass accurately (e.g. social democracy is NOT socialism or communism), how to understand Monetary policy (interest rates and the supply of money in circulation, generally managed by Central Bank), how to understand Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), how to understand Fiscal policy (taxation and government spending, generally determined by government legislation), how to understand media bias, how to identify fake news and conspiracy theories, and how to fact check and use critical thinking skills etc.
21) Mainstream and Social Media restrictions on advertising, disinformation and propaganda generally and particularly during elections (e.g. Facebook/Cambridge Analytica, Trump’s Tweets, FOX propaganda, disinformation and opinion reporting e.g. Hannity, Ingraham, Carlson, Dobbs, Pirro etc.)
22) Media Blackout before election (possibly 72 hours before and on voting days themselves)
23) Install an independent Election Management Body (EMB) to be responsible for the polling, conducting and tabulating of votes in elections and referenda, and the registration of political parties, oversight of campaign finance, design of the ballot papers, drawing of electoral boundaries, resolution of electoral disputes, civic and voter education and media monitoring for the safeguarding the legitimacy of democratic institutions and the peaceful transitions of power. They need to ensure all aspects of any electoral contest meets global norms and follows the fundamental guiding principles of elections, including independence, impartiality, integrity, transparency, efficiency, professionalism and service-mindedness, that perform in the best interest of the voters.
24) Abolish Justice Dept. memo that says a sitting president cannot be indicted for crimes committed.
25) Tighten the control of the President’s pardon power. Criminals MUST be held accountable for their crimes.
26) Transfer of power to take place immediately a new President is elected. (U.K. is able to transfer power within a few days).
27) On policies, provide universal health care and government funded tertiary education. Raise minimum wage. Federally guaranteed jobs to upgrade infrastructure and transition away from fossil fuels ASAP. Implement the ‘Green New Deal’. Cut military spending, and divert the funds instead to social programs.
I pray that the American people are taking note of what the Republican Party are trying to do by silencing the American people's voices!!!!!
VOTE THEM OUT!!!!
Notice how that Amy Comey Barrett tried to cut him off saying I’m done thankyou as he started exposing the truth.
While Trump won over independents by four points nationally in 2016 against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, Biden saw one of his largest pickups among that group - winning a 54 percent majority of independents, a 12-point rise from Clinton’s 42 percent showing in 2016. The pattern was seen across key battleground states, including Wisconsin, where independents flipped from backing Trump by a 10-point margin in 2016 to supporting Biden by a 14-point margin. In Arizona, Biden won independents by 11 points four years after Trump won the group by a narrower three points. Voters nationally who identified their political views as moderate also swung sharply in Biden’s direction, favoring the Democrat by 30 points this year, compared with Clinton’s 12-point advantage. Across key states, Biden won moderates by 37 points in Arizona, 23 points in Wisconsin, 32 points in Georgia and 17 points in Pennsylvania.
Republicans are a distinct minority of voters and cannot win elections without attracting a strong majority of independent and moderate voters, in addition to gerrymandering voting districts and suppressing votes.
cant get anything past Sonia Sotomayor -- she is one sharp cookie
Exactly!!! I have said it for years...I have never understood why the GOP spends so much time and money on voter suppression instead of simply doing the right thing for America and Americans !?!?
No you are asking that ALL voters are held to the same standard of photo ID, proof of residency and validate any requested absentee ballot and of course AUDIT the elections for breaching immediately at the close of polls and have it done by independent professional experts!
SCTOUS? Come on MNSBC! 😂
I love Neal Katya.
Isn't it SCOTUS?
Basically he is saying that we want to legally deny you the right to vote but, after the election is said and done, you will have the right to a hearing where you can complain. How generous of them?
If they can't win, and can't bear to lose, they begin with putting out obstacles to prevent the opponent from getting on the court or field.
The GOP has gone rogue.
Open the primaries, make all districting non partisan and consistent across the states, make vote by mail a nationwide system.
Admit guilt. Funny they tell the truth in court but not out in public.
Good trouble. ♥️🙏🖤🙏♥️
The right to vote is protected under freedom of speech, also try and do in Australia and its straight up arrested, thrown in front of court and then thrown into jail with being blacklisted and removed from any office in the public eye or any job I think
Democrats need to fight tooth and nail every single state level vote-suppressing lawsuit being filed by the GOP! Ugh!
Yes.
Another reason I feel I made the right choice leaving the Republican party.
Shouldn't voter disenfranchisement be a crime?
SCOTUS
-- If you have NOT BEEN GIVEN the right, then you HAVE BEEN DENIED the right.
-- If you HAVE BEEN GIVEN the right, then you have NOT BEEN DENIED the right.
TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION:the standards of taxation are the same as representation.there should be no more or no less burdens FOR EACH AND FOR BOTH=‼️
The right to vote.
The key word there is RIGHT.
It's not a privilege it's a right. Declared in the Constitution of the United States of America.
If you were to try to take guns away from conned-servatives they would be lightening quick to quote 4 words of the second amendment. Proclaiming that as a "god given right" ignoring the rest of that sentence where the Government reserved the right to regulate those arms.
But they want to chisel away at the right to vote of those who wouldn't vote for them or their unpopular. policies.
Play the entire quote.
'SCTOUS'. More quality titling from MSNBCs TH-cam person.
SCTOUS?? Do you need a proofreader!
These msnbc shows are not being heard and watched in thousands of tv and radio markets! You've got to get into every cable cartier and over the air market area! Do it.
I hope Stacy Abrams runs for governor in Georgia again. We need as many Georgia Democrats that we can get.
It’s SCOTUS not SCTOUS.. lol
Lately I’ve re-discovered the 15th amendment. Everyone knows the 13th - ends slavery, and the 14th - defines citizenship, but the 15th bans limiting the vote on the basis of race or color. The second part of the amendment may be even more important, because it grants Congress the power to pass laws to enforce the amendment. All the Republicans who say, that the constitution gives States sole power to regulate elections, are ignoring this provision of the 15th amendment. We all know poll taxes and literacy tests, while literally are race neutral, were extensively employed during the Jim Crow era with the racist intention to limit black voter participation. So, now, if Congress passes a law guaranteeing the right to vote on weekends, because a state limitation on weekend voting, with the intention of limiting “souls to the polls”, which also has a racist intention, that certainly is permitted by the 15th amendment; it should not be subject to judicial review. Congress DOES have the power to determine voter eligibility, and needs to use it to preserve our Democracy.
SCOTUS finally threw out bozo's LAST complaint. How many was that now? 1250?
It's a relief to be watching two sage men discussing fairness, after having survived 5 years of Trumpism's craziness and privilege. E-book: 'Right Wingers Duped' articulates further.
It is when we ignore acts like this that no matter your political group we all loose. What happens if its a Republican who is misding one of the requirements? Will there be an exemption?
Totally agree with this. However it bothers me that Neal Katyal has argued in defence of legislation to shield corporations from being sued by victims of slavery in their supply chain.. I cannot forget that every time I see his face quite honestly
having clear cut signals of good or bad is not common nowadays, everything is steeped in gray but this issue is pretty clear, one party is trying to make it possible for EVERYONE to vote and one party is trying to make it so only THEIR SUPPORTERS vote...pretty easy to see who the honorable party is. -- theres really no argument to be made against this, do you think everyone should be able to vote?
Fix your headline. SCOTUS, not SCTOUS.
NO ONE SHOULD HAVE TO EVER HAVE TO FIGHT FOR THE RIGHT TO VOTE! Its funny how only Republicans are out there actively fighting to put voter restrictions and more rules/laws on VOTING RIGHTS! ITS A RIGHT, JUST LIKE YOUR RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT, YOUR RIGHT TO BARE ARMS, YOUR RIGHT TO FREE SPEECH, ETC!
Hello Jim Crow where've you been these last 56 year's?
Wicked
It is important to understand that democracy is not in the best interests of Republicans.
Where are all these civil rights lawyers who are supposed to be fighting for us at?, they have to protect people's rights to vote as alot of people have fought and died for for our rights to vote.
So how did the SC rule.
Shouldn't the ultimate goal be to encourage 100% of the country's citizens to vote at every election?
Darn it, your getting a little worker up!
~~ 'IN A FAIR VOTE, WE WOULD LOSE, SO I DON'T WANT THAT.' ~~
Ban voter suppression, introduce a 28th Amendment for the right of every citizen 18 years old and over the right to vote, or introduce mandatory voting (every eligible citizen votes - $50 fine if you don't vote)
Australia has mandatory voting and because of this 95% voter turnout. By contrast in the US millions of voters are purged from voter rolls, and at least 40% of provisional ballots are thrown in the trash can and not counted. It’s just another method of rigging the electoral system.
Mandatory voting strikes me as undemocratic.
The right to vote isn't just about the freedom to vote for the candidate of your choice, it's also about having the option to not cast a vote if you so wish.
@@aetch77 Hi Helen, as an Australian i can assure you that you must turn up at the polling booth, and have your name crossed of the voting roll but you are not required to vote . Two options are open for you, spoil your voting paper, i.e. deface it or don't fill it in. Or just dump it in the waste bin after ripping it into pieces.
@@aetch77, it is only undemocratic if you are actively seeking to repress the votes of segments of the population.
In Australia, employers must allow staff at work to go and vote. At the same time, the electoral boxes are spread around everywhere, so people do not have much more than a 10 minute wait.
@@OneLeatherBoot Exactly! Australians could teach America a thing or two about democracy. So-called US democracy has become a shambles.
@@aetch77 How to Fix or Reform US Democracy and the Electoral System.
1) Shorten the Election Campaigns to 4-8 weeks maximum (like most other advanced democracies. This also helps to get money out of politics). Ridiculously long campaigns (18mths) are a waste of money, resources and time; time that should be spent governing the country and providing social programs for citizens needs, not campaigning for re-election.
2) Campaign finance reform (donations only via private citizens with strict donation limits, ban corporate funding and influence).
3) Voting Days to be held on the weekend (not Tuesday), and possibly in conjugation with Veteran’s Day Holiday. (Make it easier for all citizens to be able to vote).
4) Go back to reliable ‘hand marked pen and paper’ ballots publicly counted and scrutinized. Design simple to understand paper ballots, and do NOT use ‘Black Box’ electronic voting machines (EVMs) or ballot marking devices (BMDs), because any electronic devices are too easily hacked or manipulated to rig voting figures even if using ‘block-chain’ technology. Cyber-attacks can also be undetectable. www.coindesk.com/mit-paper-rejects-blockchain-based-voting-systems-elections
Paper ballots are more reliable and can be recounted if necessary. Democracy is too important to allow the possibility for cheating.
5) Stringent independent election audits to oversee and verify the result and eradicate election fraud.
6) Eliminate/abolish the Electoral College (Article 2, Section 1, of The Constitution). This would normally be difficult, because the Electoral College is constitutionally mandated, and abolishing it would require a constitutional amendment. Over the past 200 years more than 700 proposals have been introduced in Congress to reform or eliminate the Electoral College - without any becoming law. It requires two thirds of the House, two thirds of the Senate, and three quarters of the States to vote in favor.
There is another easier way to effectively end the Electoral College without technically abolishing it.
Agreement of the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote.
An organization called the ‘National Popular Vote Interstate Compact’ (NPVIC) is pushing to eliminate the Electoral College without tampering with the Constitution. Once the NPVIC has reached 270 electoral votes, the passed bills from all the states will kick in and guarantee that the candidate with the highest vote total nationwide would become the president.
So far, 15 states (CA, IL, NY, CO, CT, MD, MA, NJ, NM, OR, WA, DE, HI, RI, VT) and the District of Columbia (Total = 196 electoral votes) have committed to the cause. The bill has also passed at least one chamber in 9 additional states with 88 more electoral votes (AR, AZ, ME, MI, MN, NC, NV, OK, VA). So, we need 74 more electoral votes to eliminate the unfair influence of the Electoral College.
A total of 3,408 state legislators from all 50 states have endorsed it. www.nationalpopularvote.com/written-explanation
*American citizens need to become politically active to make this happen before the 2024 election.
7) Need for more political party diversity. Break-up the duopoly of the 2 major political parties (Democrats and Republicans) which has become an unofficial coalition serving only their corporate donors. Give voters real political choices rather than just the illusion of choice with just these 2 corrupted major political parties by corporate interests. There’s a need for at least a 3rd major party, possibly 4 or 5 major political parties like other advanced democratic countries. This would break up the duopoly, diversify the political landscape, and reduce the influence of corporate money corrupting the democratic system.
8) Get rid of First Past the Post (FPP) (sometimes called plurality) voting, and introduce some form of Proportional Representation (PR) Rank Choice Voting (RCV) preferably - Mixed Member Proportional Representation (MMP(R) with Multi-Member Districts.
MMP has voters select both a candidate in their local district and a party they'd like to win a majority. Everyone who wins a district gets a seat, and then additional seats are given out to ensure that parties are represented in proportion to their share of the party vote. This has a number of advantages. Unlike party list representation, people still have representatives with at least some ties to their local area.
Voters get 2 votes: one for their local representative, and one for their favorite party.
Mixed Member Proportional has familiar local representatives, and simple ballot.
9) Standardize the voting system nationally across all states.
10) Eliminate the need for political party registration (there’s no need to be affiliated to any political party, and it only encourages gerrymandering). No one should be loyal to just one political party. Force political parties to concentrate on policy to attract your vote.
11) Have polling stations available at all public schools (there must be enough polling places for everyone)
12) Ban voter suppression, introduce a 28th Amendment for the right of every citizen 18 years old and over the right to vote, or introduce mandatory voting (every eligible citizen votes - $50 fine if you don't vote)
Australia has mandatory voting and because of this 95% voter turnout.
By contrast in the US millions of voters are purged from voter rolls, and at least 40% of provisional ballots are thrown in the trash can and not counted. It’s just another method of rigging the electoral system.
13) Ban gerrymandering of districts to favor one political party. Independent commission should draw district lines, not partisan political parties. Voters should pick their politicians, NOT politicians their voters.
14) *Consider a Unicameral Congress (only House of Representatives needed to pass Bills. There's no need for the Senate to pass Bills, so situations like McConnell and the filibuster holding up important legislation cannot happen).
*(NZ is an advanced democracy and has a Unicameral Parliament which works very efficiently).
*(a Unicameral System is also one step closer to a direct democracy of all the common people).
Unicameral System: www.investopedia.com/terms/u/unicameral-system.asp
Bicameral System: www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bicameral-system.asp
(*The majority of international governments use the unicameral system-with a roughly 60/40 split between unicameral and bicameral.)
The only other option other than a unicameral system, is to make it mandatory for Bills passed in the House MUST be voted on immediately in the Senate. Mitch McConnell has sat on hundreds of Bills effectively blocking them from passing.
15) Have all sessions in Congress live streamed, so the public can view what is going on, and who is voting for what policies. Make politicians accountable.
16) Term limits on all politicians (Congressman and Senators) and judges (in particular Supreme Court justices - no lifetime appointments).
17) Balance the Supreme Court with non-partisan, impartial judges. Have rigorous vetting and confirmation process. (Amy Coney Barrett couldn’t even recite the rights of the 1st Amendment)
18) Voting Rights Act upgraded.
19) Election security strengthened. (Cyber security, independent scrutiny and audits)
20) Introduce political education into high schools at age 16 and older to prepare for voting. New voters need to understand how democratic systems work, how important it is to vote, how to engage in political activism, how laws are passed and brought into effect, how to interpret the Political Compass accurately (e.g. social democracy is NOT socialism or communism), how to understand Monetary policy (interest rates and the supply of money in circulation, generally managed by Central Bank), how to understand Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), how to understand Fiscal policy (taxation and government spending, generally determined by government legislation), how to understand media bias, how to identify fake news and conspiracy theories, and how to fact check and use critical thinking skills etc.
21) Mainstream and Social Media restrictions on advertising, disinformation and propaganda generally and particularly during elections (e.g. Facebook/Cambridge Analytica, Trump’s Tweets, FOX propaganda, disinformation and opinion reporting e.g. Hannity, Ingraham, Carlson, Dobbs, Pirro etc.)
22) Media Blackout before election (possibly 72 hours before and on voting days themselves)
23) Install an independent Election Management Body (EMB) to be responsible for the polling, conducting and tabulating of votes in elections and referenda, and the registration of political parties, oversight of campaign finance, design of the ballot papers, drawing of electoral boundaries, resolution of electoral disputes, civic and voter education and media monitoring for the safeguarding the legitimacy of democratic institutions and the peaceful transitions of power. They need to ensure all aspects of any electoral contest meets global norms and follows the fundamental guiding principles of elections, including independence, impartiality, integrity, transparency, efficiency, professionalism and service-mindedness, that perform in the best interest of the voters.
24) Abolish Justice Dept. memo that says a sitting president cannot be indicted for crimes committed.
25) Tighten the control of the President’s pardon power. Criminals MUST be held accountable for their crimes.
26) Transfer of power to take place immediately a new President is elected. (U.K. is able to transfer power within a few days).
Voter ID.
Well said Neal why not put the energy to stop people voting to the fight to defeat COVID-19.
NBC..." Families are hurting.."....hurting family.." our government is killing us in the streets...**NBC chuckles
The Republican Party of freedom...free from voting.