Callais Is Worse Than You Think. No, Even More Worse. Nope, STILL WORSE THAN THAT.
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🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 67 minutes
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OA1260 - The Supreme Court lectures us on the right way to combat racism, which is to close our eyes and pretend it’s not happening. In Louisiana v. Callais… the court guts the Voting Rights Act, weaponizes the 14th Amendment against prevention of racial discrimination in the name of preventing racial discrimination, and opens the door to banning basically all government or government-sponsored practices designed to combat racism. Or national origin discrimination. And probably gender discrimination. However bad you’ve heard this is, it’s worse. Listen to Jenessa and Thomas slowly lose their minds as they game out the myriad implications of this nonsense.
Previous episode on this topic: 1199 “They’re Going to End the Voting Rights Act. But at Least We Got to Hear KBJ Murder a Guy in Court”
If Matt has a footnote fetish(tm), I guess Jenessa has a shownote fetish because she has so many that I need to put it in a google doc.
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| 0:00.0 | No matter how racist and outwardly racist it was, how would you correct any map under this logic. |
| 0:16.9 | If you ever try to correct racism and in so doing our thinking about race, we have to |
| 0:25.9 | invoke strict scrutiny, which will almost always stop you from doing what you're trying |
| 0:30.8 | to do. |
| 0:41.1 | Hello and welcome to opening arguments. |
| 0:42.8 | This is episode 1260. |
| 0:43.6 | I'm Thomas. |
| 0:44.8 | That over there is Janessa. |
| 0:45.5 | How you doing? |
| 0:46.8 | Not great. |
| 0:48.4 | Nope. |
| 0:50.7 | Not good. |
| 0:51.7 | Pretty bad. |
| 0:55.2 | Due to timing and everything, I guess it's been a minute. |
| 0:58.6 | Why are we not good for now in this timeline? |
| 1:07.5 | The decision in Louisiana v. Calais is arguably one of the worst out of this court. |
| 1:13.3 | It might be the most racist thing I've ever read out of the Supreme Court ever. |
| 1:16.0 | Well, that's a tough one. |
| 1:20.5 | You know, here's the thing, is at least in Plessy v. Ferguson, they didn't say, |
| 1:24.6 | actually, the 14th Amendment requires segregation. |
| 1:29.5 | That's what Equal Protection really looks like. And that's basically what this does. You're going to read worse explicit racism. You will find judges being like, I think black |
| 1:36.1 | people are inferior. But in terms of impact, systemic and implicit racism, this is right up there |
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