Zach Wahls

That it's trying to disenfranchise black voters, which is exactly what's happening here.

In the court's eyes, that's not racist.

But preventing Louisiana from disenfranchising black voters, that is racist because it ultimately redounds to the disadvantage of white people.

Like it is so, the logic here is so upside down.

And first of all, at odds with how we understand racism in America, to say nothing of public opinion.

Did you know, Dan, that 50% of Black America lives in the South?

I mean, the implications for this are vast, right?

Like, and Louisiana has, I think, a third of the population is Black.

And they're trying to create two majority black districts out of six.

And what the court has done here is just a wholesale inversion of, first of all, what Congress intended in its reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act in the 1980s.

I mean, we don't need to get into this sort of intent versus effects piece of this.

But nonetheless, the Supreme Court, which, when convenient, defers to Congress, has chosen to completely upend congressional intention here, which is pretty clear.

In furtherance of a project that began decades ago and which Sam Alito and Clarence Thomas and John Roberts were all a part of when they were young staffers and a young judge during the Reagan years.

And like the project of unwinding civil rights progress, the project of reversing attempts to make a more equitable society has long been one of the foundational goals of the right wing movement that began in the wake of, you know, the 1960s and 1970s.

So, like, congrats, I guess, to the Roberts Court for doing this.

This is like a real dismantling of civil rights progress and will have vast repercussions, not just electorally and politically, but for our society.

When you disenfranchise 20% of this country, it will also affect Latinos and Asians in states like California.

When you disenfranchise people of color in this country, you have a less representative democracy.

You have a less just country.

You don't have the America that I think we all aspire to.