Sherrilyn Ifill
speaker
219 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard 5 May
Sherrilyn Ifill’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We are punishing the South.
And things have changed.
We don't need to have this preclearance provision anymore.
Yeah, it's so interesting.
That's what the late, great Justice Ruth
Bader Ginsburg said.
She said that eliminating Section 5 now is like using an umbrella, and it keeps you dry, and then you say, well, let me throw away the umbrella because I'm dry, even though it's raining outside.
So that's what happened.
So that was now gone.
Now we didn't have preclearance.
And you all may have noticed, in the last 10 years, this explosion of voter ID laws and voter suppression laws, that came as a result of 2013.
You know, it's so funny because I started out as a civil rights lawyer when Bush was president.
And so the attorney general was a Republican.
And so the attorney general was a Republican.
I remember the solicitor general was Ken Starr.
And I remember when the first Section 2 case I ever filed went to the Supreme Court, Houston Lawyers Association versus Texas, the Justice Department was on our side.
I mean, our co-counsel was Ken Starr.
So even Republican administrations in the past, old-school Republican, used to still try at least and enforce the Voting Rights Act.
I absolutely agree with you that this Department of Justice would never do that.
But nevertheless, that was the law.
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