Sherrilyn Ifill
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 5 May
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Yes, sadly.
Yeah, last week, the Supreme Court issued a decision in a case called Louisiana v. Calais that essentially removed
the remaining power from a key section of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
And in so doing, they kind of rendered the act a nullity.
They had already given the act a body blow in 2013 in a case called Shelby County versus Holder.
And when they issued that decision, Chief Justice Roberts said, yes, but you still have another part of the Voting Rights Act that's really strong, and you can use that.
It's section two.
It's nationwide.
And then he had that in his he said that in 2013.
You're OK.
You're OK because you've still got section to the section that he took out with section five.
Yes.
And then last week they took section two.
And did he then go, look, section one, you're still OK.
Yeah.
So just one edit to that is that, you know, after the Civil War, there was an effort to ensure that Black people could vote.
And that was through the three amendments that were passed to our Constitution after the Civil War.
One ending slavery, the 14th Amendment, birthright citizenship.
and equal protection of laws.
And then the 15th Amendment said you cannot prevent someone from voting based on race or color or previous condition of servitude.
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