The Good Fight (TV Series)

The One Where Diane and Liz Topple Democracy (2019)

Christine Baranski: Diane Lockhart

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• Diane Lockhart : We can't take part in this. It's wrong. Not just illegal. It's wrong. What?

  Liz Reddick-Lawrence : No, I'm just-I'm just thinking.

  Diane Lockhart : About what? You agree with them?

  Liz Reddick-Lawrence : No, but... I think there is an argument to be made here.

  Diane Lockhart : For hacking? Are you kidding? That goes against everything we stand for as a democracy.

  Liz Reddick-Lawrence : Not everything.

  Diane Lockhart : What do you mean?

  Liz Reddick-Lawrence : Well there are counties right now where black people are so terrorized that they can't even show up at polls.

  Diane Lockhart : That's not what I mean...

  Liz Reddick-Lawrence : Look, look, in Georgia, in 2018, a bus filled of black senior citizens was stopped by the police so they wouldn't be allowed to vote. 53,000 registrations of black voters were held up by the Georgia Secretary of State.

  Diane Lockhart : Liz, I know. I know that this is...

  Liz Reddick-Lawrence : No, no, Diane, you don't. You don't know. We share a lot of things but we do not share histories. I have a college friend who was kicked off the voter roles in Ohio. And my uncle was denied the right to vote in the last election in Wisconsin. I mean, at some point, these stories become more than just anecdotes. There's something bigger. This democracy, that you talk about, this doesn't exist for a lot of us. It didn't exist for my grandparents. It didn't exist for my parents. And it is slowly being taken away from me.

  Diane Lockhart : Then we fight it in the courts.

  Liz Reddick-Lawrence : Mhm. The courts. The courts that overturned the Civil Rights Voting Act in 2013? So excuse me if I need a moment to reflect on this... unique possibility. One person hits a few buttons and suddenly black voters are re-enfranchised. That means something very different to me than it does to you.

• Diane Lockhart : Ah, Your Honor, the issue here is not intellectual property and just compensation. This is a larger issue, one that speaks to the heart of our country. Every vote counts, and therefore every vote must be counted. If the people cannot trust that their votes will be counted, how can they trust the rights that flow from those votes? If our votes are subverted, or discarded, or even ignored, why have faith in our democratic institutions? Why respect a president, any president, even one from our own party? Why not choose violent overthrow, if our votes are not counted? Mr. Konich is correct: this is about a constitutional right. But it is not a secondary one. It is the primary one. It is about who we are. That is why we need this discovery, Your Honor. This software must be inspected to see if there is integrity in the counting of the votes. That is the issue.