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Strict Scrutiny

Will the Voting Rights Act Survive SCOTUS?

Strict Scrutiny

Crooked Media

Philosophy, News, Government, Supreme Court, Society & Culture

4.84.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

Leah, Kate, and Melissa break down last week’s agonizing two-and-a-half-hour oral argument in Louisiana v. Callais, a case that could see the already weakened Voting Rights Act gutted even further. They highlight the themes that emerged and dig into the case’s broader context with Sam Spital, Associate Director-Counsel at the Legal Defense Fund, then recap the week’s other arguments and the latest legal news. Finally, Leah talks with Joyce Vance about her new book, Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual for Keeping a Democracy.

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Strict scrutiny is brought to you by Americans United for separation of church and state.

0:04.3

You don't destroy 250 years of secular democracy without gutting some precedents, shattering

0:09.4

some norms, and dropping a few billion. The same people in groups that back Project

0:14.4

2025 are part of a larger shadow network that is relentlessly pushing to impose a Christian

0:20.2

nationalist agenda on our lives

0:22.3

and our laws. Church state separation is the bulwark blocking their agenda. One of the last bastions

0:28.6

of church state separation is our public school system. So they are pushing vouchers everywhere.

0:34.2

They are arguing for religious public schools. Yes, you heard that right, religious

0:38.9

public schools, and they're doing it at the Supreme Court, as we've covered on this podcast.

0:43.8

If you're listening to us, you already see the writing on the wall, and you know that we can

0:48.7

and we must fight back. Join Americans United for separation of church and state and their

0:53.5

growing movement,

0:54.7

because church state separation protects us all. You can learn more and get involved at

0:59.4

atau.org slash crooked. Introducing the weeknight on MSNBC, join hosts Alicia Menendez,

1:07.7

Michael Steele, and Simone Sanders Townsend for a spirited conversation, challenging each other and our leaders about the biggest issues of the day.

1:16.1

It's about knowing what you are for, who you are for.

1:19.0

That's what politics is about, it's engagement.

1:21.9

We are going to dive deeper into the legal side of today's breaking news.

1:25.6

The weeknight, Monday through Friday at 7 seven p m easter on msnbc

1:33.3

mr chief justice please for it's an old joe but when i argue men argues against two beautiful

1:41.0

ladies like this they're going to have the last word she spoke not

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elegantly but with unmistakable clarity she said i ask no favor for my sex all i ask of our brethren

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