Cory Booker
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first heard Jun 2024
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themselves be fairly representative so this is all anti-democratic it works against the principles of our founding it works against the principles of fairness and we have to fight back and we have to find ways to continue to press in these upcoming elections so that we can bring back fairness to elections bring back fairness to our democracy so it's going to be a tough
set of months ahead of us and i'm grateful i've seen some early reporting in fact my staff just told me when i came in that there are governors like hopeful in new york who are openly talking now if they're going to do these further gerrymandering further disenfranchisement of people in their states we're going to have to revisit our maps as well
Yeah, I mean, that's the thing that we have right now.
If you read our founders or the Federalist Papers, I think it's Federalist 47 that says explicitly, yeah, you know, presidents are going to try to reach and grasp for more power than they have.
It's a natural consequence of us being a flawed country.
species that that people are going to try to overreach it's the job and the design of the system designing a senate to be a check and a balance to be able to hold them accountable to be able to have oversight to have specific powers like war powers and spending powers that should be reserved for us but what they didn't account for is a congress that doesn't stand up for its turf
but is willing to bend over in some advanced form of yoga, bend over backwards and do whatever that executive tells them to do.
So here we are, a nation at war.
We've had no open hearings on the war in the Senate.
The world's most deliberative body hasn't deliberated as Americans prices are going up.
We're having a
oil shock that's causing prices at the pump to go up, consumer goods to go up.
American soldiers are dying in defense of our country and our Constitution.
And yet the United States Senate is not doing its constitutional duty by holding the President of the United States accountable by being a check on his abuses of power.
every inch of ground you've got to fight for.
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And we have seen this midterm redistricting that Donald Trump started as partisan gerrymandering, rank partisan gerrymandering.
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Remember, in the House of Representatives, there was a bill that came up.
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Every Democrat voted to end this partisan gerrymandering.
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Every Republican voted to defend it.
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And Donald Trump is now using that mid-term to try to change maps.
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