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Raphael Warnock: “The land of the free is the mass incarceration capital of…”

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Senator Raphael Warnock Says the Roberts Court Is 'Deeply Intellectually Dishonest' | The Interview

Published June 10, 2026 | Video Starts at 18:57

I love this country, flaws and all, but part of how you love somebody is you tell it the truth. And I'd be irresponsible to sit in this seat while ignoring the fact The land of the free is the mass incarceration capital of the world. I got a brother who went through that system. He made a terrible mistake. What he did cannot be justified. (18:57–19:02)

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“It's grown twice as fast in the states that used to have to pre clear that were under Section 5, Southern States primarily.”
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“Cut a trillion dollars, $1 trillion out of Medicaid, calling it waste, fraud and abuse.”
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“The Supreme Court has committed violence against our whole the ways in which ordinary people can have a voice in our system.”
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“The same Supreme Court that has gutted section 2 of the Voting Rights act, gutted section 5 in 2013.”
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“State officials in Georgia looked at the anatomy of my victory in the runoff, which by the way, is itself a vestige of the Jim Crow South.”
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“They cut the runoff in half in terms of the number of weeks.”
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“He [Jesus] never billed them for his services.”
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“The decision said you can engage in partisan gerrymandering. As long as it's not racial, it's just partisan.”
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“I've got bills to [get rid of gerrymandering].”
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