The SCOTUS Voting Rights Decision Is SERIOUSLY BAD!
The Don Lemon Show
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🗓️ 30 April 2026
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| 0:30.2 | You meaning changing the black political power in the entire country by voting down or at least gutting the very thing that gave African Americans in this |
| 0:40.4 | country and many other minorities as well. Some equity as it relates to voting. Yeah, |
| 0:49.3 | that. You know, there's this mass dilution of black power here. I mean, this ruling, this Louisiana |
| 0:55.3 | ruling from the Supreme Court is, is insane. It is a, it is a, you know, what Kagan referred to as |
| 1:00.9 | kind of like a nail in the coffin to the voting rights act of, of 1965. We have Section 2 totally |
| 1:06.9 | eroded here, Alito effectively saying now that Section 2 requires intent of discrimination. |
| 1:14.1 | Like you can't challenge now racist voting policies. You need to actually establish intent. |
| 1:20.2 | So basically the person will need to declare, I hereby am racist and are pushing this law. |
| 1:26.6 | When in actuality, the 18, the 1982 |
| 1:30.8 | amendment Congress pushed reverse that. So he's effectively overruling Congress here. And this is |
| 1:36.8 | the culmination of the, the Roberts Court, totally dismantling the 1965, you know, voting rights |
| 1:43.8 | act. And there's so many angles to it. But I'm just, |
| 1:46.2 | you know, I'm not, I'm not happy about it, Don. And I know you've been covering it a lot, too. I'm not happy about it. And I think more people should be outraged about it. And I think more people should be covering it because this is, I mean, it is outrageous. It's egregious. and I don't think people, when they take this into mind, |
| 2:02.7 | they don't understand, I guess, the history of the country, people have short memories. |
| 2:07.2 | And the issues that African-American faced and still do face. |
| 2:14.6 | And the only reason that we're able to make this much, |
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