SCOTUS's South Carolina Decision Isn't The Only Voting Rights Fight To Watch
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🗓️ 24 May 2024
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Summary
The United States Supreme Court sided with Republicans in a decision over South Carolina’s disputed congressional map. Last year, a lower court ruled that the map was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander because it “exiled” thousands of Black voters from a district that was becoming increasingly competitive to make it safer for the Republican incumbent. On Thursday, The Supreme Court’s conservative majority reversed that decision in a ruling that will likely make it harder for Black voters to bring racial gerrymandering cases in the future. Marc Elias, longtime attorney for the Democratic Party and founder of the voting rights website Democracy Docket, breaks down some other big, ongoing fights over voting rights heading into the election.
And in headlines: The Department of Justice announced it’s suing Live Nation over an alleged monopoly of the entertainment industry, Senate Democrats launched an investigation into a meeting last month between oil companies and former president Donald Trump, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is predicting a massive hurricane season this year.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, May 24th. |
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| 0:24.7 | On today's show, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warns |
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| 0:48.2 | But first the Supreme Court on Thursday sided with Republicans in a decision |
| 0:52.9 | over South Carolina's disputed congressional map. |
| 0:56.0 | Last year, a lower court ruled that the map |
| 0:58.2 | was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. |
| 1:01.6 | It said state GOP lawmakers had quote exiled thousands of |
| 1:05.4 | black voters from a district that was becoming increasingly competitive in |
| 1:09.3 | order to make it safer for the incumbent a white Republican. |
| 1:13.2 | But on Thursday, the Supreme Court's conservative majority |
| 1:16.1 | reversed that decision and sent the case back to the lower court, |
| 1:20.1 | giving the civil rights groups challenging |
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