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Lawrence O'Donnell, Sen. Doug Jones & David Folkenflik

Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast

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Is Biden a Good Negotiator on Voting Rights?

I'm not sure what he can do unilaterally about voting right now. The Justice Department is there, but they're in lawsuits all over the place. I think it needs to be a little bit more of a federal issue because we've got federal elections every two years. There's a lot of misinformation out there that you would think listening to people that the Constitution gives the states the sole right to manage elections. That's not the case. It does give states the right to do that, but then there's a qualifier to it that says that the Congress of the United States can step in and modify those and take some control.

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