I took this class called We The People in High School. It's a national competition class.

And, you know, after the competition, kind of aspect is over. In my class, we just learned about

mood core and redistricting and jury mandering and civil rights law and civil liberties.

This is Sunny Walkney.

I'm a program manager and voting rights counsel at the UCLA voting rights project.

So back in the day, Sunny was a We The Peopleer? We know a lot about We The People.

We do indeed. We get to judge it every year in New Hampshire.

It's a competition where high school students expound on the meaning, virtues, and pitfalls of the Constitution and its application.

So, Sunny is in high school, very much tuned into the Constitution and it's 2013.

That was a big year for voting rights.

I was very closely watching the Shelby County case. I graduated high school in 2013.

I graduated high school the day that the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Section 4B, the pre-clearance formula that gutted the Voting Rights Act.

And at least for now, Jake, the bottom line is that these Southern states, largely Southern states,

that had these special requirements that the federal government imposed in that 1965 a Voting Rights Act.

They are no longer going to have to deal with that, at least for the time being, unless Congress takes special action.

And as I said, I don't anticipate that special action anytime soon.

And I decided right then and there, just sitting there, that I was going to go and be a voting rights lawyer.

So what happened in 2013? What makes a teenager sitting at a graduation, set a career path then and there?

What is the Voting Rights Act and what has happened to it?

That is what we are here to answer. As civics 101, I'm Hannah McCarthy.

I'm Nick Capity-J.

And today we are talking about a sweeping piece of legislation that changed voting for millions of Americans.

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