Hans von Spakovsky
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first heard Oct 2025
last heard 16 Oct
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That is not what the Voting Rights Act was intended to do, to help one political party or not.
The Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965.
It was intended to stop the kind of outright discrimination that was going on throughout the South at that time.
That kind of discrimination has almost completely disappeared.
So what it's been now being used for and has for the last two decades is the NAACP and others come in making not a claim that their voters have been denied the ability to vote, but their vote has been diluted.
Diluted.
And as the...
Deputy Solicitor General for the U.S.
Department of Justice argued before the Supreme Court, he said, look, the problem is the judges haven't been actually figuring out whether there's an unfair effect based on race
They've been figuring out whether there's an unfair effect based on party.
And that is not what the Voting Rights Act was intended to do to help one political party or not.
It was supposed to stop outright racial discrimination in the voting context.
Look, the basic argument of those who first sued was that because Black residents of Louisiana are about 30-35% of the population, they deserve two of the six congressional seats.
They didn't really have any evidence of...
of current discrimination being practiced by the state legislature.
And that is a, not only is that a wrong interpretation of Section 2, but Section 2 specifically has language saying that it does not guarantee proportional representation based on the ratio of minorities in a particular population.
That is an absurd claim that does not match reality.
All you have to do is look at the number of Black elected officials throughout the country, and particularly in the South, the former Confederacy.
There are Black elected officials there at the
state, local, and federal level, that claim is a patronizingly racist attitude towards Black voters and Black elected officials.
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