Lock Me Out Of The Ballgame
What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 7 December 2021
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
The US Department of Justice filed a federal lawsuit against Texas over the state's recently updated redistricting maps. The DOJ claims that Texas's maps are unconstitutional and a violation of the Voting Rights Act because they unfairly dilute minority voting power.
MLB locked out all of its players last week after a five-year collective bargaining agreement between owners and players expired. It marks the first work stoppage for the league in almost three decades. Lindsey Adler, who covers the Yankees for The Athletic, joins us to discuss the issues at play.
And in headlines: the U.S. will stage a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, New York City mayor Bill de Blasio announced a Covid vaccine mandate for all private-sector employers, and California Congressman Devin Nunes will resign later this month.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, December 7th. I'm Gideon Ressink. |
| 0:08.4 | And I'm Josie Defi Rice. And this is What A Day. Where for the rest of the month, we'll |
| 0:12.7 | be pretending our microphones are snowballs. |
| 0:15.6 | Yes, it is our little way of getting into the spirit. |
| 0:18.1 | Shouldn't concern you as a listener, but we want it to be transparent. |
| 0:20.8 | And we'll be pretending our headphones are earmuffs, too. |
| 0:23.3 | Mm-hmm, it's true. |
| 0:24.2 | And that's as far as we're willing to stretch reality. |
| 0:26.6 | On today's show, we're going to dive deeper into the issues behind the historic lockout |
| 0:34.4 | in Major League Baseball. Plus, US diplomats will not be in the stands for the upcoming winter |
| 0:39.5 | Olympics in Beijing. |
| 0:40.7 | But first, on Monday, the US Department of Justice filed a federal lawsuit against Texas |
| 0:44.6 | over the state's recently updated redistricting maps. |
| 0:48.0 | Here's a 20-general American Ireland yesterday announcing the suit. |
| 0:51.2 | The complaint we filed today alleges that Texas has violated section two |
| 0:55.8 | by creating redistricting plans that deny or bridge the rights of Latino and Black voters |
| 1:02.3 | to vote on account of their race, color or membership in a language minority group. |
| 1:07.8 | And when he said there that the maps violate section two, he's talking about that section |
| 1:10.9 | of the voting rights act, which we'll get into in a second. |
| 1:13.6 | But, Gideon, this is the first lawsuit filed by the DOJ regarding 2020 redistricting, but I feel |
| 1:20.3 | like it's probably not the last. |
| 1:22.1 | Yeah, I feel exactly the same. |
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