The State of the Senate (Guest: Senator Alex Padilla)

United States Senator Alex Padilla has spent his lifetime in public service - first as a member of the Los Angeles City Council and eventually as a California State Senator. In 2015 he became California’s first Latino Secretary of State, and he was then appointed by Gavin Newsom to finish the term of Senator and now Vice President Kamala Harris. Padilla joins Jessica to discuss the fate of the filibuster, why voting rights are essential to a free democracy, and the Senate’s role in the upcoming replacement of retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.