Story Time for Fed Court Nerds

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🗓️ 28 November 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Sarah and David return from their Thanksgiving feasts to serve up a very nerdy episode on fed court law. Enjoy: -David giving a lowdown of the Voting Rights Act -Hacking minority districts -Laws created by court precedents versus laws created by statutes -Any standing experts out there? -Undoing the Warren Court -Section Two Rights vindicated in civil court -Reporters: Don’t go to activists for legal analysis -Elon versus Media Matters -Match maker Sarah, make me a match Show Notes: -Eight Circuit two to one opinion -Section Two of the Voting Rights Act -Elon v Media Matters -Video: Hostage reunites with family Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:51.1	Ready I was born ready. I'm Sarah Isger. That's David French and we're going to do Fed Courts today. For you
1:17.0	lawyers who are listening, sorry for the trigger warning, but we're going to spend a lot of our episode today doing a Fed Courts
1:25.5	preview, rehearsal, redo. For those of you who are not lawyers listening to this podcast,
1:31.7	boy are you in for a treat, asterisk, footnote if you're an enormous
1:35.8	nerd? Well, I mean, that's why people tune in. And shouldn't that be basically the disclaimer every time?
1:43.2	Yeah, don't listen to this podcast if you're not a pretty big nerd who likes nerd things.
1:48.2	Yeah, right, exactly.
1:50.2	Okay, so let me tell you why we're doing Fed Courts today, because we're going to spend a lot of time breaking down that 8th Circuit 2-1 opinion holding that the Voting Rights Act Section 2 does not have a private right of action meaning that
2:05.2	individual groups voters etc cannot sue to enforce section 2's guarantee of what amounts to non-racially discriminatory districts.
2:20.0	We're going to rehash what Section 2 says, and then we're going to rehash what Section 2 says,
2:23.4	and then we're going to do what private right of action is.
2:26.0	And in order to do that, we have to put it in the larger context
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