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Schumer’s push on voting rights: 'Wake up and smell the coffee, Chief Justice'

Capehart

The Washington Post

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2019

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) called me to his grand office in the U.S. Capitol to talk about “undoing the damage” of the Shelby v. Holder decision, instituting automatic registration and granting statehood to the District of Columbia.

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Jonathan Cape Heart, and welcome to this special edition of Cape Up.

0:09.0

I am so angry at Justice Roberts, Chief Justice Roberts.

0:14.2

That Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York.

0:17.0

He's angry at the Supreme Court over its 2013

0:19.7

decision that gutted the Voting Rights Act

0:22.2

and ushered in a new era of voter suppression.

0:25.0

That's why he's going to make a big push on voting rights.

0:28.0

Not only does he want to fix the court Shelby decision, he also wants automatic registration and DC statehood.

0:35.0

This was a relatively quick conversation packed with information and high hopes.

0:40.0

Hear it all right now.

0:49.0

Senator Schumer, thank you very much for being on the podcast. It's good to be here, Jonathan.

0:50.3

We've known each other probably close to 30 years.

0:53.0

Almost 30 years.

0:54.0

And so when you called I said, well, absolutely I will come and talk to you.

0:59.0

And you wanted to talk about something specific.

1:01.0

I did.

1:02.0

And that is our push on voting rights. Voting

1:06.8

rights is one of the it is probably the most fundamental building block of a

1:10.6

democracy. This is what the founding fathers created and this is what millions of Americans have fought for.

1:19.0

Hundreds of all, millions of Americans have died for as well.

1:22.0

And so when voting rights is being Americans have died for as well.

1:22.6

And so when voting rights is being impinged upon,

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