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    #VelshiBannedBookClub: 'Maus' by Art Spiegelman

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  • Rep. Gottheimer on debt ceiling negotiations: “We’ve got to get out of this cycle of insanity”

    06:28

  • Sen. Sanders: 'Nobody is happy about the 14th Amendment…but it beats where we're at right now'

    00:20

  • Velshi: This single SCOTUS case could upend our entire regulatory system

    06:21

  • Sen. Stabenow: 14th Amendment, discharge petition are 'viable' options to avoid default

    02:10

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    01:52

  • Sen. Coons: 'The single worst thing we could do is default'

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  •  #VelshiBannedBookClub: Resisting Book Bans with Lawsuits

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    04:42

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    05:54

  • The strategic roots of the attack on trans rights

    05:02

  • Sen. Tuberville’s verbal gymnastics when asked about white nationalism 

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  • Gov. Cooper needs just one Republican to help him save abortion rights in NC

    06:16

  • Caitlin Dickerson: Focusing on migrant numbers alone is misleading 

    07:57

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    05:12

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  • TX Rep. Jasmine Crockett: Elected officials offer prayers instead of policy solutions

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Ali Velshi

Rethinking how the U.S. prioritizes misdemeanors with Professor Jenny Roberts

03:47

George Floyd was arrested last year when a convenience store clerk claimed he used a counterfeit 20-dollar-bill to buy cigarettes. Passing off a counterfeit $20-dollar bill is the kind of misdemeanor that usually results in little-to-no jail time yet Floyd was issued a death sentence with no right to a judge or jury. Jenny Roberts is a Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Criminal Justice Clinic at American University Washington College of Law and she joins Ali Velshi to discuss the trial of Derek Chauvin, policing, and why the United States legal system must reconsider how it deals with low-level crimes.March 28, 2021

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    #VelshiBannedBookClub: 'Maus' by Art Spiegelman

    08:26

  • SC Senator Mia McLeod on abortion ban fight: 'all we’re asking for is a choice'

    06:49

  • Rep. Gottheimer on debt ceiling negotiations: “We’ve got to get out of this cycle of insanity”

    06:28

  • Sen. Sanders: 'Nobody is happy about the 14th Amendment…but it beats where we're at right now'

    00:20

  • Velshi: This single SCOTUS case could upend our entire regulatory system

    06:21

  • Sen. Stabenow: 14th Amendment, discharge petition are 'viable' options to avoid default

    02:10

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