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Republicans go all out in the aftermath of the Supreme Court gutting what's left of the Voting

Rights Act. And I've got three interviews, Gavin Newsom, journalist Ari Berman, and legal reporter Adam

Kassfeld.

I'm Brian Tyler Cohen, and you're listening to No Lie.

So it took virtually no time at all for Republican officials to act in response to the Supreme

Court gutting what's left of the Voting Rights Act.

And unfortunately,

albeit predictably, they acted in the worst way possible. So I'm going to go through a little bit of

what we've seen thus far. In Louisiana, the governor called a state of emergency and immediately

suspended congressional primaries. A state of emergency, not for flood or natural disaster,

or the sky high poverty rate rate or the high crime rate,

but rather to make sure that they can eliminate districts with black representation.

Like, that's how much weight they wanted to lend to the idea of diluting black voting power in Louisiana.

It's apparently an emergency.

The state will redraw its maps and could

eliminate at least one, if not both black districts. In Alabama, Governor K. Ivy called a special

session of the legislature to reinstate a gerrymandered map that had previously been struck down

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