ari berman, one last question. that does not exactly relate to, though kind of, the elections, we are about to turn to a segment on big tech. the ceos were grilled on capitol hill about how they moderate election disinformation and extremist content. accused by republicans of censoring conservatives. before we go, i want to ask about how facebook designed changes to its news feed algorithm in 2017 to reduce the visibility of progressive new sites like mother jones, ernie's organization. according to bobo the wall street journal" i'm executives at facebook had concerns about the new algorithm that they thought might have a larger impact on right-leaning new sites like the daily wire. so engineers made changes to the algorithm that would have a bigger impact on traffic to left-leaning sites. meanwhile, mother jones editors wrote in 2019 the site had seen a sharp decline in his facebook audience, which translated to a loss of around $600,000 over 18 months. apparently, according to "the wall street journal," zuckerber

for more, we are joined by ari berman, senior reporter for mother jones. st piece is headlined "trump wants a repeat of bush v. gore. amy coney barrett might make it happen." tell us about this case, ari. >> amy coney bararrett was one f potentially three conservative justices along with brett kavanaugh and john roberts who worked in floririda during the 2020 recount.. she hahad clerked for justice scalia. she was 28 8 years old. she e was woining for a lalaw fm that worked with george w. bush's main law firm run by james baker, the big washington powerbroker. she worked on a case related to bush v gore. two cases, actually, in which the issue was mail ballots. what happened in florida wasas that there were absentee ballot requestorms senent republican voters in 2004. there wewere e errors. republican officicials were able to go to the electctions offffi, take out these absentee ballllot request forms, fifill in thee missining information, which was illegal ununder florida law for them to do this so republican voters could get ballots. this gave republican

joining our discussion now is ari berman. the ballot: the modern struggle for voting rights in america." ari, what does the struggle look like tonight around the country? >> it's an intense struggle, lawrence. the fact that the supreme court is deciding cases six days before the election and voters still aren't sure what the rules will be is really shocking. the fact that you have a president of the united states saying he doesn't want ballots to be counted. the fact that you have judges like brett kavanaugh and samuel alito that are raising concerns about legal ballots being counted and basically saying we are going to try to throw these ballots out after election day, that is leaving voters very insecure about whether their votes will be counted. so there are threats to voting rights all over right now and they are being accelerated in many cases by the supreme court despite these two relatively good rulings in pennsylvania and north carolina tonight. >> now, california, as i was just discussing with congresswoman porter, i

ari berman, senior reporter for mother jones and author of "give us the ballot: the modern struggle forht that quote in the a.p. article, you know, 28 prafz down saying, yeah, hopefully it will be close enough and we can just throw it to the courts as if that's like the actual game plan here. but it seems clearer and clearer that is the actual game plan here. >> yeah, it's pretty amazing, chris. i mean voter suppression is not a new thing. we've talked about it a lot on this show. it goes back a long way in the republican party, but it's pretty incredible to me that the trump campaign's only strategy right now seems to be voter suppression, seems to be openly admitting that they can't win unless they prevent people from voting. and that, to me, is a dramatic escalation of what republicans have done in the past. they've spent a lot more time trying to suppress the vote than they've tried to suppress the violence is where we're at right now. >> i think that point about voter suppression to me too, there's two different ways this happens, right? i mean front-end efforts that we know they'r

ari berman and vanita gupta, thank you both so much.t is "all in" on this monday night. a week to go for the election. rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. thank you, my friend. much appreciated. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. over the course of eight years that he was president, president barack obama had two of his nominees confirmed to be justices of the united states of his nominees confirmed to be justices of the united states supreme court. justice sonia sotomayor, who was sworn in, in august 2009, and justice elena kagan, who was sworn in, in august 2010. neither justice sotomayor nor justice kagan was sworn in at the white house, though. they were both sworn in at the court, at the supreme court, as a gesture of respect for the independence of the judiciary, for the fact that a justice of the supreme court should never be primarily known for his or her association with the president who gave them their appointment. again, both elena kagan and sonia sotomayor swor

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ari berman and natasha brown, cofounder of black voters matter. thank you both. ggest hot spots and threats? i read three examples to voters in this already occurring voting season. >> those are really good examples you picked, joy. in north carolina, they're basically telling election officials to ignore the law. in pennsylvania, they're trying to throw out hundreds of thousands of ballots. in texas, they're going from 12 voting locations to drop off your mail-in ballot in harris county which is 2.4 million registered voters for one for a county larger than 27 states. so republicans are really throwing the kitchen sink when it comes to suppressing votes. they're not just attacking vote by mail. they're attacking voting in person. they're lying about voter fraud. they're making it harder to count votes. and the further president trump slips in the polls, the more i imagine they will rely on voter suppression as their only strategy to try to win because they can't talk about 200,000 people dying or 10 million people out of work or all the ways they failed. they're

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i talked about it with author ari berman, who's written extensively on voting rights. >> so this is aases of voter fraud here and there. but it doesn happen in the numbers necessary to show that there's some sort of great conspiracy out there to steal elections through voter fraud. >> cobb: he pointed to a critical time in the early 2000s, when the idea began to take off inside the george w. bush administration. >> up to that point, the department of justice,he particularly the voting section of the department of justice, was focused on enforcing t enfoe voting rights act. and when people in the bush administration got in there, very ideological, very right-wing people, they began to change the mandate of the department of justice from instead ofrotecting voters who are facing disenfranchisement, they started talking about voter fraud. and they started bringing all these cases to try to find these cases of voter fraud. the seeds of all of that were laid by hans von spakovsky and other conservative activists dating all the way back to the 2000s and the george w. bush justice department

ari berman, always great to have you. happy birthday nora, too. >> thank you. >> that is "all in" on this monday evening. the rachel maddow show starts right now. >>> thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. 22 days until the election. when election day arrives, again, just 22 days from now, when election day arrives and you wake up full of anxiety about what's going to happen that day in terms of the election day, when you wake up on the morning of election day, will you be able to say to yourself that morning, well, whatever happens, i know that i did all i could do? i'm thinking of your mental health here. the whole country right now has collective anxiety and frankly collective dyspepsia over what's going to happen in the election with the congress and a lot of states with the governor's race or the control of the legislature, with the all-important control of the united states senate, and of course with the presidential race. the only thing i can tell you to do to protect your mental health and reduce both you

ari berman and vanita gupta, thank you both so much. for that, that is "all in" on this monday night. a week to go for the election. rachel maddow show starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> good evening, chris. thank you, my friend. much appreciated. >>> thanks to you at heome for joining us this hour. over the course of eight years that he was president, president barack obama had two of his nominees confirmed to be justices of the united states supreme court. justice sonia sotomayor, who was sworn in in august 2000 9 and justice elena kagan who was sworn in in august 2010. neither justice sotomayor nor justice kagan was sworn in at the white house, though. they were both sworn in at the court, at the supreme court, as a gesture of respect for the independence of the judiciary, for the fact that a justice of the supreme court should never be primarily known for his or her association with the president who gave them their appointment. again, both elena kagan and sonia sotomayor sworn in at the court, not at the white house. the tr