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Another blow to the Voting Rights Act

Post Reports

The Washington Post

Daily News, Politics, News

4.45.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2021

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

Where voting rights stand after a new court decision. An assessment of a shifting Supreme Court. And the latest legal challenges for Trump’s family business. 

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The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Arizona’s voting restrictions. Reporter Amy Gardner discusses what this means for the Voting Rights Act. And Supreme Court reporter Robert Barnes shares how the latest rulings show ideological shifts on the bench.

Reporter David A. Fahrenthold discusses new criminal charges against the Trump Organization and its chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg.

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0:00.0

From the newsroom of the Washington Post.

0:07.0

Hi, this is Ben Terris coming from the Washington Post.

0:10.0

Hi, Jeff.

0:11.0

This is Winfrey Oprah.

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Hi there.

0:13.0

How are you?

0:14.0

It's Lisa bonus, calling for the post.

0:15.0

This is Post Reports.

0:17.0

I'm Martine Powers.

0:21.0

It's Thursday, July 1st.

0:25.0

Today, a shifting Supreme Court on voting rights and beyond.

0:29.0

Plus, the looming legal threat to Trump's family business.

0:36.0

So, today, the Supreme Court ruled on a case involving two laws in the state of Arizona.

0:44.0

And that decision reversed a lower court appeals court ruling that these two laws violated the Voting Rights Act.

0:53.0

Amy Gardner covers voting issues for the post.

0:58.0

Today's ruling is really important.

1:01.0

It effectively undermines Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which is a really important section that prohibits racial discrimination in voting administration.

1:10.0

And by deeming that these two laws in Arizona don't discriminate on the basis of race or skin color.

1:18.0

The Supreme Court is in some ways enabling state legislatures around the country to continue passing the vote.

1:27.0

And continue passing these kinds of voting restrictions that both the dissenting justices on the Supreme Court and lots of voting rights activists and Democrats around the country have been sort of railing against for months and months and months this year as Republican-controlled state legislatures have passed and considered hundreds upon hundreds of such voting restrictions.

1:51.0

So, tell me a little bit more about these two laws in Arizona and what they do.

1:56.0

So, the first law limits who can collect absentee ballots from voters.

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