Ari Berman
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first heard Jul 2026
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on their heads because they have said that these amendments, these Reconstruction-era amendments, have to be read in a race-blind way.
But there was nothing race-blind about the 14th and 15th Amendment.
They were passed to give equality to formerly enslaved people.
The 15th Amendment says very clearly, the right to vote shall not be denied or abridged on the basis of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
So you can't interpret
the 15th Amendment in a race-blind way or you're going to strip all meaning from the 15th Amendment or from the 14th Amendment.
And right now what they're doing is they're using the 14th and 15th Amendment as a weapon to help aggrieved white voters as opposed to a tool that was meant to rectify historical injustices in America, including the injustice of slavery.
We were here to protest police brutality.
The whole space felt darker and angrier.
President Trump says the ceasefire with Iran is over.
This week on Consider This, a former high ranking U.S.
diplomat shares his thoughts on what could happen next.
That's this week on Consider This.
You can get the full story behind the headlines every afternoon.
Listen on the NPR app or wherever you get your podcasts.
It is the case.
The Voting Rights Act was passed by overwhelming support by the Congress in 1965.
It was a white southerner, LBJ, who made the case for the Voting Rights Act, said in very powerful terms that we could not have in America.
in which people were disenfranchised based on the color of their skin.
The Voting Rights Act was reauthorized four times by the Congress, each time with overwhelming bipartisan support.
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