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Monday on Political Rewind: Race continues to be a central theme in the case of Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael and William "Roddie" Bryan \u2014 the three white men charged with murder in the shooting of Black jogger Ahmaud Arbery in 2020.\n\nA defense attorney in the case received criticism after complaining about the presence of Black pastors, including well-known names like Rev. Al Sharpton, in the courtroom.\n\nEmory professor of constitutional law Fred Smith said the attorney's comments are notable because they provide additional framing of the high-profile case within America's ongoing reckoning with racism.\n\n"Part of what we're seeing in this particular trial is that the subtext of race \u2014 which is often present in the American criminal legal system \u2014 the subtext is just the text,\u201d Emory professor Fred Smith said. \u201cThere's also, built into that, a broader context in the criminal legal system, where many scholars like Paul Butler and others have written, about how when police see African Americans, they are viewed more as a threat and how that's kind of a thread throughout criminal legal system."\n\nMeanwhile, President Joe Biden is scheduled to sign the long-awaited infrastructure bill Monday. Every Republican member of Georgia congressional delegation voted against the measure. Some congressional Republicans who did vote for the bill, including South Carolina's Lindsay Graham, are being targeted with death threats and calls for expulsion.\n\nIn other news, a federal appeals court signals its displeasure with the Biden Administration vaccine mandate.\n\nPanelists:\n\nDr. Andra Gillespie\xa0\u2014 Political science professor and director, James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference, Emory University\n\nMargaret Coker \u2014 Editor-in-chief, The Current\n\nFred Smith\xa0\u2014 Professor of constitutional law, Emory University\n\nDr. Heather Farley\xa0\u2014 Chair of the Department of Criminal Justice, Public Policy and Management, Georgia Coastal College