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🗓️ 29 April 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh. |
| 0:04.3 | The U.S. Supreme Court has weakened the Voting Rights Act's protections against racial discrimination in redistricting. |
| 0:12.5 | NPR's Hansi Lo Wong reports the ruling comes out of a case about Louisiana's congressional map. |
| 0:17.6 | The Supreme Court's conservative majority has ruled that a second majority |
| 0:21.1 | black congressional district that a lower court had ordered Louisiana's legislature to draw to get in |
| 0:26.0 | line with the Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional. This high court ruling reinterprets longstanding |
| 0:31.0 | protections under the Voting Rights Act Section 2 that have helped make sure racial minority |
| 0:35.0 | voters are not shut out during redistricting in places |
| 0:37.5 | where voting is racially polarized. In the court's majority opinion, Justice Samuel Lito says that |
| 0:41.9 | the focus of Section 2 must be banning, quote, intentional racial discrimination, which many |
| 0:47.6 | legal experts say will be hard to prove in court. Many redistricting experts now expect Republican-controlled |
| 0:52.9 | state legislatures in the South to eliminate at least some Democratic-represented House districts that were likely protected under the Voting Rights Act, though the timing is unclear. |
| 1:01.8 | Onzi Luong, NPR News. |
| 1:03.8 | Former FBI Director James Comey has made a brief appearance in federal court on charges stemming from an Instagram post. |
| 1:12.4 | NPR's Kerry Johnson reports the Justice Department is prosecuting Comey for allegedly threatening the president. Comey did not enter a plea, |
| 1:17.9 | but he previously declared he's innocent and has faith in the justice system. A magistrate judge |
| 1:23.5 | released him without bond. Last year, the former FBI director posted and then deleted a photo |
| 1:29.3 | from the beach of shells spelling out the numbers 86-47. 86 is slang for get rid of and 47's a reference to |
| 1:38.5 | the 47th president, Donald Trump. Trump says Comey was calling for his assassination, but Comey said he didn't know those |
| 1:46.1 | numbers were connected to violence. Political speech gets strong First Amendment protection. |
| 1:52.1 | Even some conservative lawyers say they think this case will be dismissed. Carrie Johnson, |
| 1:57.2 | NPR News. The federal reserves opting to keep interest rates where they are, defying President |
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