300: SCOTUS 86s Voting Rights

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🗓️ 2 May 2026

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Kimberly Atkins Stohr hosts #SistersInLaw to discuss the SCOTUS ruling in Louisiana v. Callais, looking at the history of district allocation, how it undermines the Voting Rights Act, the significance of Justice Kagan’s dissent, and what it could mean for the country going forward. Then, the #Sisters explain the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey, the legal definition of a true threat, and the protection the 1st Amendment affords political speech. They also review the criminal charges against the attempted presidential assassin at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and the ethics of using it as leverage for a White House ballroom.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to hashtag sisters-in-law with Jill Wine Banks, Joyce fans, Barb McQuaid, and me, Kim Atkins store.
0:25.3	Boy, what a week this has been. So as you might have already guessed our topics, I'm going to give them to you anyway. We're talking about the
0:30.4	absolutely devastating Supreme Court decision that guts just about all that was left of the Voting
0:36.8	Rights Act after the last few times the Supreme Court took a hatchet to it.
0:41.5	We are also talking about the Groundhog Day style indictment of Jim Comey.
0:47.7	Have we been there before?
0:49.0	We sure have.
0:50.6	And also we're going to talk about the horrific attack on the White House correspondence dinner and the legal implications of that.
0:58.4	As a journalist, I have a lot of feelings about that. And we are going to dig in. But first, you know, usually this is the time where we have a little chit-chat about some topic beforehand. But honestly, it has been such a week.
1:12.5	I can't even think of anything fun to talk about. So I'm just going to ask y'all, like, you know,
1:18.1	is there anything fun happen? Like, just give it to us. Barb, you start.
1:22.6	Oh, boy. It has been a rough week with some of those decisions that you talked about we're going to get into later.
1:27.8	But you know it actually brought me a little joy this week?
1:30.6	From the most unlikely source, because I'm not a fan, but it was King Charles.
1:36.1	The King Charles visit I thought was really refreshing.
1:39.0	For one, did you see they made a bunch of funny, like, social media things where they're bringing like Roo along on the trip, and they played it to the Jay-Z, you know, New York. You know, they had some funny videos of them arriving, which were kind of fun. But the speech he gave, the King's speech before Congress, we talked to the Magna Carta and the importance of checking executive power. I mean, here is a king telling a
2:00.9	president, like, don't get too big for your britches. I mean, listen to it. This is the country we
2:07.0	defeated in the revolution coming and saying, okay, well, if you're going to do this democracy thing,
2:12.6	well, at least do it right. Yeah. Isn't that amazing? You know, I saw a great meme on Instagram this morning that said that, and I tried to find it.
2:21.0	I can't find it real quick.
2:22.6	But it said something like, if you had told the founding fathers that a British king would come to America to tell us to uphold the rule of law, they would have never believed it.
2:32.7	That was great.
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