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This is about the most intimate decision of our lives — when, whether and with whom we have a child. Everyone should have the ability to make decisions about our own lives, bodies, and futures without political interference, we need to organize, raise our voices and our votes, and overturn this attack on our freedom and our lives. I have seen that when we take action and organize we can change the world. – Heather Booth	Found on CNN 12 months ago
This election is the most important election in the country in 2023 because Wisconsin is the tipping point state for presidential elections, whoever wins the Supreme Court race will cast the deciding vote on questions like voting rights decisions, our abortion ban and even potentially whether to overturn the results of the 2024 presidential election. – Ben Wikler	Found on CNN 1 year ago
That would tell us that this cross section of citizens, having spent nine months working hard at this, has concluded that at least some of what was done on behalf of the former president to overturn the election results was a crime, i think that’s terrifically significant. – Clark Cunningham	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There is nothing more sacrosanct to our American democracy than free and fair elections and the peaceful transfer of power, the Notice of Disciplinary Charges alleges that Mr. Eastman violated this duty in furtherance of an attempt to usurp the will of the American people and overturn election results for the highest office in the land – an egregious and unprecedented attack on our democracy – for which he must be held accountable. – George Cardona	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think you knew how important it was when you sought to urge the White House that had lost an election to find fake electors to overturn the will of the people. Sen. Lee, that was the most egregious betrayal of our nation’s Constitution in its history by a U.S. senator, and I believe that it will be your legacy. – Evan McMullin	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
For you to talk about the importance of the Electoral College I think is rich, i think you knew how important it was when you sought to urge the White House that had lost an election to find fake electors to overturn the will of the people. Sen. Lee, that was the most egregious betrayal of our nation’s Constitution in its history by a U.S. senator, and I believe that it will be your legacy. – Evan McMullin	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We don't need rookies who don't know what they're doing in Congress, we need our most experienced, strong, effective, accomplished, I would say, women, who know how to fight and how to overturn the attack on (Roe v. Wade) and on our rights. – Sean Patrick Maloney	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The Supreme Court's extreme decision to overturn Roe v. Wade put women's health and lives at risk, tonight, the American people had something to say about it. – Joe Biden	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I heard this week that President Trump said I had the right to overturn the election. President Trump is wrong, i had no right to overturn the election. The presidency belongs to the American people and the American people alone. Frankly, there is no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person could choose the American president. – Mike Pence	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We know our families are worried. Frankly, we are, too. The court's willingness to overturn almost 50 years of Supreme Court precedent is truly alarming -- and the decision contains language that signals looming threats to other freedoms, like marriage, that are fundamental not only to LGBTQ + people but to everyone. – Shelbi Day	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The Supreme Court decided to overturn Roe v Wade which is a law that ensures a woman's right to a safe abortion, another basic human right. – Olivia Rodrigo	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
There are 10 ways to demonstrate that this election was stolen, that the votes were phony, that there were a lot of them, dead people, felons, phony ballots, it's very surreal to go back and put together all these moving pieces that led up to Fulton County to overturn the results of the election and led up to the aftermath of January 6. – Rudy Giuliani	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We want to know what Ginni Thomas knows, what Ginni Thomas involvement was in this plot to overturn the election, ginni Thomas has said that Ginni Thomas is willing to come in and testify voluntarily. We're glad to hear that. – Adam Schiff	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I'm a constitutional conservative, i voted with folks like Rand Paul, Mike Lee and Sen. Tim Scott to preserve the Constitution because what we couldn't do is allow one person -- the vice president of the United States -- to single-handedly overturn the Electoral College and the results of a presidential election. – Nancy Mace	Found on CNN 1 year ago
January 6 will be remembered as one of the darkest days in our nation's history. Yet, more than a year later, the threat to our democracy is as grave as ever. January 6 was not a day in isolation, but the violent culmination of multiple efforts to overturn the last presidential election and interfere with the peaceful transfer of power for the first time in our history, the former President and his allies have spent every day since January 6 attempting to rewrite history about that bloody attack on our nation's Capitol. That's why these public hearings are so essential -- to show the American people exactly how January 6 came about, who is responsible, and most critically, what we can and must do to prevent another attack on our democracy. – Adam Schiff	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It would overturn modest and overwhelmingly popular safeguards like waiting periods, informed consent laws and possibly even parental notification. – Mitch McConnell	Found on CNN 1 year ago
There are no legal clauses that allow us to unilaterally change the contract or allow any one of the partners to simply walk away or overturn the entire agreement, no serious investor in any industry in the world would agree to a long-term business relationship with flimsy termination clauses. – David Shear	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The actions against me were prosecutorial misconduct, they used cancel culture to effectively overturn an election. – Andrew Cuomo	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I heard this week, President Trump said I had the right to ‘overturn the election’. President Trump is wrong … I had no right to overturn the election. – Mike Pence	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
You know, we recently saw a mob of White supremacists assaulting the Capitol building in order to overturn an election, and people on TV always said this is unprecedented, unfortunately, it's not unprecedented. It's what's happened to Louisiana a number of times in Reconstruction. – Eric Foner	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Voting Right Act's not like the court saying,' You can't have the rainbow coalition,' would affect a lot of districts and would overturn existing understandings, i think there's just an uncertainty about Voting Right Act. – Rick Hasen	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Reading the tea leaves, it is a sign that the prosecution believes Nice won’t provide testimony that will overturn Peterson’s conviction, the state does not have to grant her immunity. – Scott Peterson	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
President Trump is wrong, under the Constitution, I had no right to change the outcome of our election, and( Vice President) Kamala Harris will have no right to overturn the election when we beat President Trump in 2024. – Mike Pence	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Donald Trump is wrong. I had no right to overturn the election. – Mike Pence	Found on CNN 2 years ago

This is about the most intimate decision of our lives — when, whether and with whom we have a child. Everyone should have the ability to make decisions about our own lives, bodies, and futures without political interference, we need to organize, raise our voices and our votes, and overturn this attack on our freedom and our lives. I have seen that when we take action and organize we can change the world.

– Heather Booth

Found on CNN
12 months ago

This election is the most important election in the country in 2023 because Wisconsin is the tipping point state for presidential elections, whoever wins the Supreme Court race will cast the deciding vote on questions like voting rights decisions, our abortion ban and even potentially whether to overturn the results of the 2024 presidential election.

– Ben Wikler

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That would tell us that this cross section of citizens, having spent nine months working hard at this, has concluded that at least some of what was done on behalf of the former president to overturn the election results was a crime, i think that’s terrifically significant.

– Clark Cunningham

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There is nothing more sacrosanct to our American democracy than free and fair elections and the peaceful transfer of power, the Notice of Disciplinary Charges alleges that Mr. Eastman violated this duty in furtherance of an attempt to usurp the will of the American people and overturn election results for the highest office in the land – an egregious and unprecedented attack on our democracy – for which he must be held accountable.

– George Cardona

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think you knew how important it was when you sought to urge the White House that had lost an election to find fake electors to overturn the will of the people. Sen. Lee, that was the most egregious betrayal of our nation’s Constitution in its history by a U.S. senator, and I believe that it will be your legacy.

– Evan McMullin

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

For you to talk about the importance of the Electoral College I think is rich, i think you knew how important it was when you sought to urge the White House that had lost an election to find fake electors to overturn the will of the people. Sen. Lee, that was the most egregious betrayal of our nation’s Constitution in its history by a U.S. senator, and I believe that it will be your legacy.

– Evan McMullin

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We don't need rookies who don't know what they're doing in Congress, we need our most experienced, strong, effective, accomplished, I would say, women, who know how to fight and how to overturn the attack on (Roe v. Wade) and on our rights.

– Sean Patrick Maloney

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Supreme Court's extreme decision to overturn Roe v. Wade put women's health and lives at risk, tonight, the American people had something to say about it.

– Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I heard this week that President Trump said I had the right to overturn the election. President Trump is wrong, i had no right to overturn the election. The presidency belongs to the American people and the American people alone. Frankly, there is no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person could choose the American president.

– Mike Pence

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We know our families are worried. Frankly, we are, too. The court's willingness to overturn almost 50 years of Supreme Court precedent is truly alarming -- and the decision contains language that signals looming threats to other freedoms, like marriage, that are fundamental not only to LGBTQ + people but to everyone.

– Shelbi Day

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The Supreme Court decided to overturn Roe v Wade which is a law that ensures a woman's right to a safe abortion, another basic human right.

– Olivia Rodrigo

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

There are 10 ways to demonstrate that this election was stolen, that the votes were phony, that there were a lot of them, dead people, felons, phony ballots, it's very surreal to go back and put together all these moving pieces that led up to Fulton County to overturn the results of the election and led up to the aftermath of January 6.

– Rudy Giuliani

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We want to know what Ginni Thomas knows, what Ginni Thomas involvement was in this plot to overturn the election, ginni Thomas has said that Ginni Thomas is willing to come in and testify voluntarily. We're glad to hear that.

– Adam Schiff

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I'm a constitutional conservative, i voted with folks like Rand Paul, Mike Lee and Sen. Tim Scott to preserve the Constitution because what we couldn't do is allow one person -- the vice president of the United States -- to single-handedly overturn the Electoral College and the results of a presidential election.

– Nancy Mace

Found on CNN
1 year ago

January 6 will be remembered as one of the darkest days in our nation's history. Yet, more than a year later, the threat to our democracy is as grave as ever. January 6 was not a day in isolation, but the violent culmination of multiple efforts to overturn the last presidential election and interfere with the peaceful transfer of power for the first time in our history, the former President and his allies have spent every day since January 6 attempting to rewrite history about that bloody attack on our nation's Capitol. That's why these public hearings are so essential -- to show the American people exactly how January 6 came about, who is responsible, and most critically, what we can and must do to prevent another attack on our democracy.

– Adam Schiff

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It would overturn modest and overwhelmingly popular safeguards like waiting periods, informed consent laws and possibly even parental notification.

– Mitch McConnell

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There are no legal clauses that allow us to unilaterally change the contract or allow any one of the partners to simply walk away or overturn the entire agreement, no serious investor in any industry in the world would agree to a long-term business relationship with flimsy termination clauses.

– David Shear

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The actions against me were prosecutorial misconduct, they used cancel culture to effectively overturn an election.

– Andrew Cuomo

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I heard this week, President Trump said I had the right to ‘overturn the election’. President Trump is wrong … I had no right to overturn the election.

– Mike Pence

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

You know, we recently saw a mob of White supremacists assaulting the Capitol building in order to overturn an election, and people on TV always said this is unprecedented, unfortunately, it's not unprecedented. It's what's happened to Louisiana a number of times in Reconstruction.

– Eric Foner

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Voting Right Act's not like the court saying,' You can't have the rainbow coalition,' would affect a lot of districts and would overturn existing understandings, i think there's just an uncertainty about Voting Right Act.

– Rick Hasen

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Reading the tea leaves, it is a sign that the prosecution believes Nice won’t provide testimony that will overturn Peterson’s conviction, the state does not have to grant her immunity.

– Scott Peterson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

President Trump is wrong, under the Constitution, I had no right to change the outcome of our election, and( Vice President) Kamala Harris will have no right to overturn the election when we beat President Trump in 2024.

– Mike Pence

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Donald Trump is wrong. I had no right to overturn the election.

– Mike Pence

Found on CNN
2 years ago

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