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I'm Hugh Hewitt. Welcome to the Wednesday edition of the Hugh Hewitt show.

Let me begin by telling you, I'll get to everything.

Two big Supreme Court cases today, Supreme Court finally making some sense out of their redistricting and race decisions.

I've been teaching con law for almost 30 years, and that area of the law has been a mess for a long time because Anthony Kennedy tried to come up with some rule against partisan gerrymandering. And finally they got rid of that when Justice Kennedy retired. Then they had kind of a rule which you could use race, but not too much, but maybe a little bit more. It made no sense at all. It's been a gobbledy gook for decades, and they came out with the decision day in

Louisiana versus Kallay, I believe is how you pronounce the second party. It says Section 2 of the

Voting Rights Act does not allow you to use race to draw maps unless there's been actual discriminatory

intent in the drawing of maps that preceded the new maps.

Then you can use race as a remedy.

You can't use race as a factor in drawing map.

You can't do anything else you want.

We're back to where we ought to have been all these years.

You may not use race to award benefits or to inflict penalties, period.

You can't try and help people based on their race. You can't try and help people based on their race.

You can't try and hurt people based on their race.

That's what the 14th Amendment is about.

But if someone has used race to draw lines to discriminate against black people,

then you can have a minority majority district drawn.

It's about that simple now.

That's a big win.

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