This is Shoshana calling from Portland, Oregon at Providence Park. The time is...

12.22 pm on Thursday, July 1st.

Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but we'll still be pressing to be on top at the end of the season.

I love that.

I can't wait to get to a game.

Oh, that sounds amazing.

Hey there, it's the MPR Politics Podcast. I'm Susan Davis, I cover Congress.

I'm Carrie Johnson, National Justice Correspondent.

And I'm Dominic O'Mantanara, Senior Political Editor and Correspondent.

And this morning, the Supreme Court closed out the term by issuing two of the biggest decisions of the year.

One on voting rights and another on dark money in politics.

Carrie, in a six-three decision, the Supreme Court sided with the state of Arizona and its restrictive voting laws.

So can you talk us through the specifics of this case?

Sure, this was a case about two different Arizona laws.

One said ballots that voters cast out of precinct don't count.

And the other made it a crime for most people to collect other voters mail in ballots.

And the court decided by a vote of six-three along ideological lines to uphold both of those Arizona restrictions

with Justice Samuel Alito writing for the majority and the three liberal justices dissenting, sometimes quite bitterly.

Now, how does this touch the issue of race under the Voting Rights Act, which of course was created in 1965?

One of the most successful pieces of civil rights legislation in history, if not the most successful?

Well, in this case, in the lower court, there was evidence that Hispanic and Black voters in Arizona get their ballots thrown out twice as often as white people for voting out of precinct.

And as far as that ballot collection or ballot harvesting a law in Arizona, Arizona's Native American population living in rural areas sometimes lives like 45 minutes to two hours away from a mailbox.

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