Ari Berman
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 8 Jul
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That's why I said, you can find people who lived through this period.
You can find their relatives.
And they feel like 60 years of progress
has been reversed by the Supreme Court's elimination of the Voting Rights Act.
And I believe that the justices that signed on to this decision, in particular Justice Alito who wrote the majority of the decision, they had one view of the South, a South that
is governed by racial progress, but they ignored the entire other part of the South, the South of poll taxes and literacy tests and grandfather clauses and violence and lynchings and all of that history.
which is not so long ago and which is coming back in a different kind of form today.
Yes, we no longer have literacy tests.
We no longer have poll taxes.
We no longer have all-white primaries.
But we do have a situation in which there is a new version of Jim Crow in which we have these states that are going to have all-white delegations to Congress in which black voters, unlike the first Jim Crow, will have the ability to vote.
but they won't have anyone to vote for.
And so their right to vote will be effectively nullified.
We're in an arms race for congressional maps.
I mean, we're right in the middle of this.
It's been going on.
This mid-decade redistricting fight has been happening since last summer when Donald Trump pressured Texas to pass a new redistricting map to give Republicans five new seats.
That was basically unprecedented for the president of the United States to lean on a state to redraw their map simply for the purpose of giving their party votes.
more seats and protecting a fragile House majority.
And then, of course, that led to more Republican-controlled states redrawing their maps.
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