Voting Rights Under Threat, Plus Do We Still Need Sports?

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🗓️ 5 March 2021

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A new case before the U.S. Supreme Court could jeopardize the power of the Voting Rights Act. Sam talks to Mark Joseph Stern, staff writer for Slate, about what's at stake and how so much of the current debate goes back to Reconstruction. Sam also chats with contributing writer for The Atlantic and podcaster Jemele Hill about how tv viewership across almost all sports has tanked during the pandemic.

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0:00.0	I've got two birds.
0:01.0	Her name is Lemon Chellow, and his name is Lorenzo.
0:04.2	They're beautiful.
0:05.0	We think they're beautiful.
0:06.6	You do know that birds like that are more than a lifetime commitment, because they live
0:11.6	forever.
0:12.6	Well, okay, so she is just a parakeet.
0:15.5	So she is not going to live forever, but I am well aware that regular parrots and other
0:20.4	kinds of parakeets, like the crazy kind of Australia, outlive you.
0:24.1	And I have a lawyer friend who does estates and trusts, and he has done more than one
0:29.4	trust for a parrots, because the parrot will outlive the owner.
0:33.8	Oh yeah, it's a thing.
0:35.7	Parrot law is absolutely a thing.
0:38.5	That is Mark Joseph Stern.
0:40.4	He knows a lot about the law, and not just parrot law.
0:43.9	Mark covers the Supreme Court for slate.
0:46.8	And you know, it seems like the last time the court was really in the news was when former
0:50.7	President Donald Trump suggested that maybe the Supreme Court could decide election 2020.
0:56.8	Well, that did not happen.
0:59.4	But now, a few months after that really contentious and important election, the court is here
1:04.0	in a case that could determine who wins a lot of elections in the future.
1:08.8	On Tuesday of this week, the Supreme's heard oral arguments in a case called Brnovich v
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