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April 21 2021
Good morning from Washington, where Senate Democrats try to convince America that Jim Crow is back to repress blacks and other minorities. Republicans call them out during a hearing on Georgia’s new election law, as Fred Lucas reports. He also has a scoop on California’s demand for financial information from a nonprofit started by a Black Lives Matter founder. On the podcast, an experienced lawyer describes what he would have done differently than Derek Chauvin’s defense counsel. Plus: Ben Shapiro on the redefinition of identity. Five years ago today, the rock star Prince is found dead at 57 in his Minnesota home and recording studio of what turns out to be an accidental fentanyl overdose.
Stacey Abrams says she supports voter ID, two senators debate the history of the Jim Crow era, and a Democrat secretary of state pleads for his party not to pass a federal takeover of elections.
If given the opportunity to represent Chauvin, “I would have done it very differently,” says John Hinderaker, president of the Minnesota-based Center of the American Experiment.
Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., says that the Georgia election integrity law makes it “a crime, a crime to offer water to folks waiting in line.” Here are the facts.
