Is this the expedited destruction of the Voting Rights Act?
The ReidOut with Joy Reid
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🗓️ 21 November 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight on the readout. I've lost my name and I've lost my reputation. I've lost my |
| 0:11.0 | sense of security all because a group of people starting with number 45 and his |
| 0:20.0 | ally Rudy Giuliani decided to scapegoat me. |
| 0:25.0 | Donald Trump's repulsive attacks have already devastated the lives of people like Georgia election worker Ruby Freeman. |
| 0:32.0 | Today an appeals court heard arguments |
| 0:34.1 | on the gag order designed to protect others from the wrath of Trump and his |
| 0:38.4 | maga rabble. Also tonight far-right Senator Mike Lee |
| 0:41.9 | revives an old and thoroughly discredited constrictly Also tonight, far-right Senator Mike Lee |
| 0:42.6 | revives an old and thoroughly discredited conspiracy theory |
| 0:45.8 | about January 6th. |
| 0:47.3 | The very same Mike Lee, who says America |
| 0:50.1 | is not a democracy. |
| 1:00.0 | But we begin tonight with the expedited destruction of the Voting Rights Act. Earlier today in a two-to-one decision, a panel of judges on the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals |
| 1:05.9 | said that only, only the federal government, not private citizens and civil rights groups, |
| 1:11.6 | can sue under a key part of the Voting Rights Act, |
| 1:14.4 | effectively gutting the legislation in seven states. The decision upheld a lower |
| 1:19.0 | court ruling. The case sought to challenge Arkansas lawmakers redistricting in the state |
| 1:25.0 | where the Republican controlled legislature drew 11 majority black districts |
| 1:30.0 | in the state's 100 seat House of Representatives. |
| 1:33.4 | The state is 16% black. |
| 1:36.2 | For now, individuals in Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, |
| 1:39.5 | Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota |
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