The Alabama Election At The Heart Of The Voting Rights Fight

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🗓️ 10 April 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

We go deep on Alabama's second congressional district ahead of a primary runoff there next week. The Supreme Court forced the state to redraw its congressional maps to bolster the rights of the state's Black voters, a win that surprised voting rights advocates after previous decisions by the high court curtailed other protects in the Voting Rights Act.

This podcast: voting correspondent Miles Parks, voting correspondent Ashley Lopez, and political reporter Stephen Fowler.

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0:43.4	the sizzle like it distracted me so I haven't had breakfast yet and oh that's your
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0:51.7	podcast I'm Miles Parks I cover voting.
0:54.0	I'm Ashley Lopez I also cover voting.
0:56.4	I'm Stephen Fowler I cover politics.
0:58.6	And today we are zooming in on a single congressional district in Alabama.
1:03.1	After the US Supreme Court ruled that Alabama's congressional map discriminated against
1:06.9	black voters, the remedy was straightforward.
1:09.3	Draw new boundaries to create a second opportunity for those voters to elect a candidate of their choice,
1:14.0	a protection that was established in the 1960s by the Voting Rights Act.
1:17.5	Today on the pod, we're going to see how that's going.
1:20.0	Stephen, you've been looking at this new congressional district. Tell me what it's like.
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