Ari Berman
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first heard Jul 2026
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Hey, Tanya.
Thank you so much for having me back.
Well, the mail voting ruling was really an aberration because the Roberts Court has issued so many decisions weakening the right to vote and essentially destroying the Voting Rights Act.
So it's almost like an asterisk.
They were asked to do something with mail voting that was just insane.
bridge too far.
Remember, this was a law that was passed out of Mississippi that said that if your ballot was postmarked by Election Day, it could be received up to five days later.
So it wasn't like it was a law that came out of California or some other liberal state.
This was a very conservative state in Mississippi that was asking essentially the Supreme Court to
Okay, that's why you call it an aberration, because your reporting suggested that this court had been moving steadily in one direction on this issue.
They have been.
I mean, you look at, for example, the decision that essentially killed the Voting Rights Act.
They weakened the last remaining provision of the Voting Rights Act in such a way that it has no power.
And by extension, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the most important civil rights law of the 1960s, has no teeth left.
And
That's just the beginning of what they've done in terms of weakening democracy.
You mentioned the campaign finance decision that struck down limits on how much parties can spend in coordination with candidates.
So before there were limits on these type of expenditures, now there isn't, meaning that an individual can give a lot more money to a party than they can give to a candidate.
Now the party can spend an unlimited amount on behalf of those candidates.
And it's just another way
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