Today, we're going to talk about Republicans' dangerous new voter suppression law in Georgia,

and my interview with Senator Amy Klobuchar, where we discussed the filibuster, including

how her own position evolved on it, and whether she can help convince the Democratic holdouts

to follow her lead, passing the four-the-people act, the spate of recent shootings, and even

how her relationship is doing with her campaign rival Pete Buttigieg.

I'm Brian Tyler Cohen, and you're listening to No Lie.

It took only eight weeks after Joe Biden was sworn in for Republicans to codify the backlash

to Georgia's electing Democrats to the Senate in presidency.

The state legislature has passed, and the governor assigned into law SB202, which, I'm sure

if you've heard anything about it, you know that it makes it illegal to hand out food

or water to people standing in line to vote.

Like, think about that.

It is now illegal to give water to voters waiting on lines as long as 11 hours, lines that

were intentionally created by Republican policies purposefully targeting black precincts.

And here's how you know that those policies target black people, because the average

wait time in Georgia after polls were scheduled to close was six minutes in neighborhoods that

were at least 90% white and 51 minutes in places that were at least 90% non-white.

And yet still, despite this disparity, the precincts with the highest percentage of black

voters had polling places eliminated in the last election.

Every step of the process is deliberately crafted to make things difficult for minorities

because they overwhelmingly vote for Democrats.

So when you hear people say that this is Jim Crow 2.0, it's because these policies still

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