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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “The country is very clearly on a precipice of fascism, and a return to Jim Crow, the sweeping attack on voting rights in…”

On the recordJanuary 26, 2022
The country is very clearly on a precipice of fascism, and a return to Jim Crow, the sweeping attack on voting rights in this country and the very real threat that we have of seeing what happened for example, with Ruth -- the consequences of Ruth Bader Ginsburg passing during the Trump presidency, that we could very well risk something like that happening again.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Democratic · New York
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msnbc.com

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Ocasio-Cortez discusses the urgency of Justice Breyer's retirement in light of threats to democracy and voting rights.

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