CAFE Insider 11/28: Another Rights Rollback
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4.8 • 32.4K Ratings
🗓️ 28 November 2023
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey folks, Preet here, another busy week of politically charged legal news making the headlines. |
| 0:06.7 | The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a ruling that could gut the Voting Rights Act, |
| 0:10.9 | holding that only the federal government, not private citizens, could challenge |
| 0:14.6 | voting practices that discriminate on the basis of race. |
| 0:18.1 | In other news, the judge overseeing Donald Trump's Georgia prosecution declined to send |
| 0:22.4 | one of Trump's co-defendants to |
| 0:23.7 | jail over recent social media posts targeting witnesses. Later this week |
| 0:28.1 | the judge will hold a hearing on Trump's motions to dismiss the charges. |
| 0:31.4 | Joyce Vance and I discuss all that and more on the |
| 0:34.6 | Cafe Insider Podcast. Today we're sharing an excerpt from the episode with |
| 0:38.7 | listeners of stay tuned. To hear our full conversation and access all other exclusive content, become a member of Cafe Insider. |
| 0:46.0 | Right now, through December 3rd, you can get 50% off the annual membership price for the first year. |
| 0:52.0 | Just head to Cafe.com slash informed. |
| 0:55.0 | That's cafe.com slash informed. |
| 0:58.0 | We look forward to having you as a part of the Insider Community. The big question is, the people must be asking, well, the Voting Rights Act, |
| 1:10.0 | Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act was passed six decades ago. |
| 1:13.4 | And you might be wondering, well, how many times has it been litigated by private litigants |
| 1:18.9 | who the Eighth Circuit now suddenly six decades later say there's no private right of action they don't have a right to |
| 1:24.6 | sue and the answer is choice hundreds of times and how can it be the case that |
| 1:31.6 | hundreds of time including in the Supreme Court of the United States it has been |
| 1:37.0 | been assumed, including in the Supreme Court of the United States, hundreds of times, it has been |
| 1:37.1 | assumed, even if not decided directly, so assumed that there is a private right of action that it has not resulted in the |
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