Justice Jackson Obliterates Originalism in Voting Rights Case

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🗓️ 10 October 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Alabama wants the Supreme Court to basically rewrite decades of voting rights law so it can run elections off racist maps.

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0:00.0	Hello, fellow
0:03.0	Two, three, four.
0:06.0	Two, three, four.
0:09.2	Two, three, four.
0:12.1	Hello, fellow law nerds.
0:13.8	Welcome to another episode of Boom Lawyred, a Rewire News Group podcast hosted by the legal
0:19.0	journalism team that wants you to know that black people
0:22.8	are real. We exist. We are not Yetis. I'm Rewire News Group's editor at large, Imani Gandhi. And I'm
0:30.9	Jess Peeklo, Rewire News Group's executive editor. Rewire News Group is the one and only home for
0:36.1	expert repro journalism that inspires you to lean into that fall vibe.
0:40.8	And the boom-layered podcast is part of that mission.
0:43.9	So a big welcome to our new listeners, subscribers.
0:46.7	And hello, viewers.
0:48.6	Amati, I can't get over the fact that we have viewers now.
0:52.5	We've got viewers.
0:53.6	We've got viewers. So last week, the Supreme
0:57.5	Court heard oral arguments in Merrill v. Milligan. And that's a case involving Alabama's
1:03.5	redistricting maps and claims that they violate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act because
1:08.7	those maps are super racist. Now, Section 2 is the portion of the Voting Rights Act because those maps are super racist.
1:13.1	Now, Section 2 is the portion of the VRA that deals directly with blocking people from voting on a counter-race.
1:21.5	The Milligan oral argument takeaways, what we're going to talk about today.
1:25.6	Number one, Alabama wants to rewrite section
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