Luke Thomas

I think it's a disaster, and it's the fruit of...

a many years long effort to dismantle the policy legacy of a civil rights movement and the foundations of black political power in the United States.

And it makes me think about what President Trump has done and tried to do in Georgia since 2020, up to and including the recent raid on Fulton County where Tulsi Gabbard, the nation's spy chief, right, the nation's senior most intelligence officer, not a law enforcement official,

was there overseeing, overseeing, and those are her own words that she used under oath in front of a Senate Intelligence Committee when I questioned her, the nation's spy chief overseeing a ballot raid in Fulton County.

Well, why is it that Donald Trump has been so obsessed with Fulton County, Georgia,

and the 2020 election.

And in my view, it's because this man who is a committed, lifelong racist, who recently posted memes of the Obamas depicted as apes, cannot wrap his head around the fact that black voters and black political power in the American South was responsible for his defeat in the 2020 election, hence his obsession with Georgia ever since.

Well, it speaks to how important these U.S.

Senate races are.

Because they will try, I am confident, to push Alito and Thomas off of the bench.

And if they have the votes in the Senate, they will try to put 30-something MAGA fanatic lawyers on the Supreme Court who will serve literally for generations.

And that will be, if it comes to pass, in some ways the most durable legacy.

of the Trump presidency.

When it comes to controversial Supreme Court nominees, every single vote in the Senate matters.

First of all, the Senate majority is in play, but even if it were not,

We would need to fight for every vote in the Senate to ensure that we can defeat the most offensive and extreme potential Supreme Court nominees who may have some difficulty peeling off some of the moderate Republicans.

It is very difficult for me to imagine in this political environment, given the crisis that the nation faces right now,

Democrats in the Senate feeling in a cooperative mood with respect to any Supreme Court nominees from this White House?

I think we have to step back and just acknowledge how catastrophically the Department of Justice has been politicized in a very short time.

How standards of independence that were long considered crucially important for presidents of both parties have been demolished.