Sen. Raphael Warnock

So far, I've had no Republican takers.

If folks are watching this and they don't like seeing this race to the bottom, we could end this tomorrow.

But I've been speaking to my Republican friends.

I actually said to the Speaker of the House yesterday when he and I had a private meeting, hey, Mr. Speaker, why don't you join me in this anti-germandering bill?

So far, no takers.

No, we should be very clear.

This is Jim Crow in new clothes.

This is a move, thanks to the Supreme Court, thanks to partisan politicians who are only focused in getting an advantage.

They're busy trying to move the South.

And it breaks my heart.

I'm a child of the South.

representing the South, they're trying to move us back to the darkest days in our country's history.

When there was no representation of Black people, no Black representation in Congress, and they're going after these districts.

And when people ask me, what the Supreme Court, let me just say what the Supreme Court did was deeply intellectually dishonest.

They basically said, not only to folks in terms of congressional districts, but even local races, that you can engage in gerrymandering,

just say that it's not about race.

Just give us another explanation.

And the onus is on the other folks who are petitioning to prove what's in your mind.

And it's deeply dishonest because the racial lines and the partisan lines in the South, particularly, sadly, they're not the exact same lines, but

There's a lot of continuity between those two things for obvious reasons.