Sherrilyn Ifill
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard 5 May
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So we lost that in 2013.
So all we had was Section 2, which gives people like me and other civil rights lawyers the ability to sue when a law has clearly had the effect
Yes, but now they have decided, essentially what the Supreme Court did, and I think this is really important because it gives you a sense of the kind of power they're exercising these days.
What they did was overturn the amendments to Section 2 that Congress had passed in 1982.
Now, they didn't say that that's what they're doing.
But they're saying we now need to return to intentional discrimination.
That is correct.
And I should point out something else.
After Congress amended the Section 2 in 1982, of course it was challenged, and it went up to the Supreme Court.
And the Supreme Court upheld it in Thornburg versus Jingles in 1986.
Right.
Thornburg versus Jingles?
Or as Justice Alito likes to say, Gingles.
It's actually Jingles, though.
But the point, the point.
The point is, the point is that they overturned not only Congress's amendment, but they also overturned their own precedent, Thornburg versus Jingles.
And in the decision, Justice Alito, who wrote the decision, explicitly says, we are not overturning
the effects test.
We are not overturning Thornburg v. Jingles, even though that's what they're doing.
But that's the tell.
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