from WNYC studios. I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Monday, May 4th.

So welcome to the era of federal law remade in the image of Louisiana Republicans. What do I mean? Well, here we are three days

after a federal appeals court in Louisiana cancel telehealth abortion drug prescriptions for the

entire United States and five days after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed Louisiana to basically

cancel the Voting Rights Act, creating an instant domino effect of

white majority redistricting chaos in other states, Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock of Georgia.

This ruling harkens back to the darkest days of the Jim Crow era when black Americans were

kept out of rooms of power. This is one

huge step backwards for racial justice and for the health of our democracy. Senator Warnock is

aired on NPR's weekend edition yesterday. Our first conversation for this week will try to assess

just how different an electoral world we are suddenly in without the Voting Rights Act of 1965,

as it's been applied for 60 years, with Nick Koresoniti, who covers voting, Democrat,

sorry, who covers voting, democracy, and other election-related issues for the New York Times.

Among his latest article headlines, voting rights ruling could fuel era of endless redistricting wars,

and a huge mess delayed Louisiana primaries stoke confusion at the ballot box.

As I said, Nick Koreseniti covers voting, democracy, and other election-related issues,

but also, as his bio-page notes, he was previously the Times-New Jersey correspondent,

a cherished gig, he says, for this proud native New Jerseyan.

He says he splits his time between Brooklyn and Asbury Park and his latest article,

in addition to all the ones about redistricting, is called Bruce versus Donald.

You can guess who named Bruce he's talking about.

We'll play a clip of that Bruce and talk about that article

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