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Let's talk about Alabama, black voters, and the Supreme Court....

Belle of the Ranch

Belle of the Ranch

Society & Culture

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Let's talk about Alabama, black voters, and the Supreme Court....

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0:00.0

Well, howdy there internet people, it's Bo again. So today we are going to talk about

0:06.2

Alabama and voting in the Supreme Court twice, in federal courts twice, and then a special master. Okay, so if you have missed

0:18.6

the news the Supreme Court told Republicans in Alabama,

0:23.0

no, we're actually not going to allow you to dilute the power of black voters.

0:28.0

Basically, would have boiled down to.

0:30.0

Whole chain of events is Alabama produces some new maps. Maps have one

0:36.9

district that is majority black. It should have more than that, period.

0:41.8

And have more than that, period.

0:44.6

And it goes to federal court.

0:47.2

Federal judges are like, hey, you need more than one district

0:50.9

that's majority black.

0:52.0

You're intentionally diluting the power of

0:54.3

black voters and Alabama was like no we don't want to do that because the 60s and

1:01.8

we're going to take it to the Supreme Court and the federal

1:05.1

judges are like fine take it to the Supreme Court goes to the Supreme Court and the

1:09.0

Supreme Court says hey you yeah you actually can't do that so you need to create a second district.

1:16.2

So Republicans Alabama they create new maps but they don't create a second

1:21.0

district that is majority black or close to it, and they go back to the federal

1:24.8

judges. The federal judges are like, seriously? Fine. You don't even get a say anymore.

1:31.2

We're appointing a special master.

1:33.8

Alabama Republicans are like well we're going to take the Supreme Court again.

1:37.1

They take it to the Supreme Court.

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