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This is the Tom Hartman program.

So back in 1965, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which included provisions that

required federal oversight when states wanted to make changes in who could vote, how people voted,

things having to do with voting, drawing congressional districts, jerrymandering, all these kinds of

things that might have a racial impact. It was a wise piece of legislation, an important piece

of legislation, and it got blown up 10 years ago this week by five Republicans on the US Supreme

Court in the case called Shelby County B Holder. Kathy Feng is with us.

The National Redistricting Director of Common Cause, Common Cause.org is the website.

Kathy KATHAYCC is Kathy Feng's Twitter handle. Kathy, welcome to the program. Tell us about,

well, let's start with the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the provisions that they got blown up by

the Supreme Court when John Roberts essentially said there's no more racism in America.

Yeah, well, it's a pretty incredible decision considering that even today we see example after

example of discrimination at the polls, intentional and effect of laws that have been passed that

restrict voting ability of minority communities. But what happened in 2013, 10 years ago was we

had the Voting Rights Act that had multiple types of protections. The way that I like to simplify

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