Imagine trying to protect the sanctity of Phoenix.

Hey everyone. This is Leon from Prologue Projects.

In the previous episode of 5 to 4, Peter, Riannon, and Michael covered the tumultuous lead-up to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

If you haven't listened to that yet, go back and check it out before you continue.

In this episode, you're going to hear about how key provisions of the Voting Rights Act

served to protect minority voters, and how over the coming decades, a newly rebranded

conservative movement gutted the act, one Supreme Court case at a time.

This is 5 to 4, a podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks.

Welcome to 5 to 4, where we dissect and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have dismissed

our civil liberties,

like me being dismissed from jury duty. I'm Peter. I'm here with Riannon. Hello. And Michael.

Shouldn't you be trying to get on the jury so you can nullify? I've got a vacation coming up,

first of all. Second of all, all I'm doing is answering every question truthfully. If you want to put a Supreme Court

podcaster on your jury, that is your prerogative. I've got a couple days of jury duty.

And today, I was outside of a courtroom. I was just overhearing this girl in college, talk to someone else.

And the discussion was a debate about whether the sounds coming from the elevator were construction or just a loud elevator.

And when I tell you that it was the most obvious construction sounds, like, you could hear men shouting and jackhammers.

And she, like, for five to ten minutes, every now and then she'd be like, maybe it is an elevator.

And then she'd go back and be like, maybe it, maybe, yeah, maybe it is just construction.

Meanwhile, somewhere a law professor is typing right now, like the jury system in American law is flawed, but.

But necessary as a last refuge against tyranny.

And you know what?

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