I'm Brian Lerer. This is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios. It's Thursday, July 1st.

It's quite a day for legal news. About an hour ago, the Supreme Court issued its decision in the important Arizona

voting rights case. This is going to have implications for other states as well. And one other

remaining decision here on the last day of this year's term also came down. Also this morning,

the Trump Organization's chief financial officer, Alan Weisselberg, gave himself up for arrest,

as he and the Trump Organization, as a business, are expected to be charged by the Manhattan DA later today,

and you've heard about Bill Cosby.

So with all that going on, we're joined now by our own Jamie Floyd, WNYC Senior Editor for Race and Justice, and our legal editor.

Hi, Jamie.

Hello, Brian.

So the big case we've been watching was a challenge to two Arizona voting access laws, one that said if you voted outside your assigned precinct, your ballot was to be thrown out. And the other

limited what's called ballot harvesting, where one person can collect other people's mail and ballots

and submit them in a bunch. And I see the court held that the laws restricting those things

did not violate the Voting Rights Act. On what grounds

did they make that decision? Right. So we saw first this morning at about 10 o'clock that the

decision was coming down with the Lido writing for the majority, and he had six votes. So even before I

read a word, I knew it was bad news for the Voting Rights Act.

And just to give it a little context, Brian, you know, this decision comes as Republican-controlled

state legislators are increasingly working to impose new restrictive voting rules, right?

And, you know, President Trump is crying fraud in elections and Republicans are moving to

roll back expansive voting opportunities that Democrats and civil rights groups have been putting in place over the course

of decades. And the Democrats are going to the courts to say Republicans are trying to suppress

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