Sherrilyn Ifill
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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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The tell is that they know how outrageous it would be for them to decide to rewrite a congressional statute.
A few times.
They absolutely did.
I mean, it's really important.
I mean, they certainly said it very explicitly in the 1982 amendment because that bright young lawyer, John Roberts, insisted that this was quotas.
And so they made it clear that nothing in this provision requires proportional representation.
And remember, the test is always whether or not the system allows black voters to elect their candidate of choice.
The focus is not on black elected officials.
The focus is on black voters.
That sounds absolutely correct.
That is what they would say.
And if you remember, the whole point of the Voting Rights Act is to protect the voting strength of minorities who have been discriminated against and to protect the voting rights of minorities whose candidates of choice are most often not supported by the white majority.
And you have to prove that in a case, by the way.
This is not vibes.
It's not vibes.
You actually, in the litigation, you have to show that there's racially polarized voting, that white voters don't support the candidate of choice of black voters.
You have to do all of that stuff.
You can do the math.
But you can do it.
Like, it's a real test that is pretty rigorous.
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