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Hello and welcome to the DSR Daily. I'm David Rothcuff. One of your hosts, the least of your hosts,

the better hosts, a Riley Fessler and Minna Stein, who are here to give us the news and we'll talk about it.

I think Riley is going to kick us off today. Yes, and I've got bad news to start. Well, how unusual. Yeah. And as

6-3 ruling regarding Louisiana's electoral map, the Supreme Court's conservative majority

significantly weakened Section 2 of the voting by requiring plaintiffs to prove intentional

racial discrimination rather than just discriminatory effects.

This is a trend for our good friend Chief Justice John Roberts of dismantling key protections of the

Voting Rights Act, and it is making it much harder for minority groups to challenge maps that

discriminate against them,

because how are you going to improve intent with something like that?

It's a disaster. It is one of the worst decisions in moderate Supreme Court history.

It is, as you suggest, a continuation of a trend where they have been weakening the Voting Rights Act. But even more

disturbingly, it is a continuation of a trend where they are seeking to reverse the gains

that Americans have made in the past century in terms of the rights of groups that have been excluded or discriminated against in our society.

And in that, I include women because we took away the right of women to bodily autonomy.

I include the Voting Rights Act.

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