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Cory Booker: “This corrupt corpor court has now just sent us back to that…”

Featuring: Cory Booker, Democratic | U.S. Senate, New Jersey

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"The Most Corrupt Administration in History": Sen Booker Reacts to Trump Slush Fund

Published | Video Starts at 06:13

My parents, grandparents, great grandparents fought in that post reconstruction period amongst terror and violence and killing to try to make this democracy real for everyone by passing the Voting Rights Act. And This corrupt corpor court has now just sent us back to that post reconstruction period when southern state legislators were passing laws to make sure that black people did not have fair representation. This election is no longer about Democrat versus Republican. Look at what this president is doing. Look at his foreign policy, his domestic policy. Look at what this court is doing. (06:13–06:27)

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Asserts that the current court has regressed to post-reconstruction era practices limiting black representation.

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