When we tried to say in 1980, intent is required, Congress literally wrote a new law being like, no, it isn't.

Congress says, we don't care if somebody sat down and did this on purpose.

The point is vote dilution is happening, so you have to correct it, and that's the end of it.

Welcome to opening arguments.

This is Matt Cameron, and today we are rapidly responding to what I assume today's co-host, Janice Seymour, will agree, is one of the most important Supreme Court cases of this term. What do you think?

Yeah, listened to some voting rights cases this morning and yesterday, and I'm not happy about it.

And, of course, this is homework you would have been doing anyway. Yeah, part of my job. The day job is actually looking at voting rights and voting rights cases. So you're the right person to talk to about this. I am today going to take on fully take on the Thomas role because I know something about any of this, but I haven't listened to any of it. I've only basically read what we've talked about before in Louisiana v. Calais, so I'll probably have a lot of questions for you, and maybe some tough ones, we'll see. After we talk about this week's are all arguments, we will talk about a related New York case that you'd already wanted to talk about, and is unfortunately, it sounds like really tied into the rights at issue in Calais. Yeah. And then, of course, I'll have a quick footnote about just a ridiculously dirty cop.

Nice.

Just good times.

Just to change up. to the rights at issue in Calais. Yeah. And then, of course, I'll have a quick footnote about just a ridiculously dirty cop.

Nice.

Just good times, just to change up the subject a little bit.

But real quick, if you want to preview, what this case is and why it matters before we come back.

Yeah.

So the Voting Rights Act of 1965, probably one of the most famous pieces of civil rights legislation. It got rid of a lot of Jim Crow laws to enable people to vote, particularly black people in the South. And it has just

been slowly but surely stripped away over the years in its power. This case, I am deeply

concerned that it could gut the Voting Rights Act to the point that it may become useless,

depending on how this comes out. Crossing my fingers for some of the justices to just

fistfight each other instead of writing a coherent decision. Yeah, you're not the only one saying this. I've been seeing a lot of people saying this is one of the most important cases of the term and that has a lot to do with our future and what the Congress is going to look like. So we'll have to talk about that. And then I don't know if we're going to get any better news out of New York. Is that going to be... Okay, within New York, I am hopeful about this case.

I am concerned about...

I am almost certain this is going to the Supreme Court rapidly.

And that could either end with New York having some of the strongest voting rights protections in the country, or a ruling

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