If Democrats expand the court, if they were to have control of both chambers, what's to stop Republicans from doing it once the tables turn again. Kristen, first, we need to talk more about this Supreme Court decision. This [Supreme Court] is a Dred Scott court. They have engaged in the fastest rollback of black political rights since Rutherford Hayes ended reconstruction in 1877. 1/3, 1/3 of African Americans in the Congress seats are being threatened. They're doing it to Jim Clyburn in South Carolina, to Bennie Thompson in Mississippi and across Alabama and the South. (00:36–08:18)
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Asserts that the current Supreme Court is rolling back black political rights at a rate not seen since 1877.
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