Ari Berman

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Fresh Air · A look at new barriers at the ballot box · 8 Jul 2026 podcast

I believe an increasing number of Democrats are saying it's not even possible if they retake power without somehow changing the structure of the Supreme Court.

Because I've been talking to a lot of voting rights experts in the past months and asking them, could Congress pass a new voting rights act?

Could Congress pass a ban on partisan gerrymandering?

Could they make racial gerrymandering illegal, for example?

And basically everyone tells me they could do it, but the Supreme Court is just going to strike it down, which is why the issue of Supreme Court reform is gaining momentum in democratic circles, whether it's term limits, whether it's expanding the court, whether it's doing something to rein in a court system.

that feels unchecked by democracy, by the democratic norms.

And I believe this issue is now resonating with voters.

There was a poll recently of black voters that said that they saw the Supreme Court as the number one threat to democracy right now, ahead of even Donald Trump.

And that was extraordinary to me.

I've never seen a poll say something like that before.

And of course, these issues are intertwined because Trump appointed

the supermajority that has effectively killed the Voting Rights Act.

But the issue of the Supreme Court and the radicalism of its decision is really resonating.

It began to resonate earlier.

The Dobbs decision that overturned Roe v. Wade was a wake-up call for a lot of people.

But for Black voters in particular, I think the fact that the Supreme Court has essentially nullified

the country's most important civil rights law, has really become a rallying cry to make sure that their voting rights are protected in the future.

The Emmy nominations are here.

We're unpacking record-breaking nominations for Hacks, plus a big day for The Pit and newcomers like Widow's Bay.

We'll talk about some snubs and make some early predictions of who will win.

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