Wins For Voters in Louisiana and Wisconsin
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🗓️ 17 May 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
This week, we saw some big wins in the fight to expand access to the ballot box. On Wednesday, the Supreme Court reinstated a second majority Black congressional district in Louisiana. Earlier in the week, the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s liberal majority looked poised to overturn a two-year-old decision banning nearly all absentee ballot drop boxes. Still, a new report from the Brennan Center for Justice shows voters in more than half the states will face new restrictions on voting that weren’t there four years ago. Kareem Crayton, senior director of voting rights and representation at the Brennan Center, gives us the lay of the land on ballot access heading into November.
And in headlines: House Republicans moved to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt after the White House blocked the release of audio of President Joe Biden’s interviews with a special counsel over his handling of classified documents, the Supreme Court rebuffed a conservative-backed effort to challenge the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and an Indiana judge says tacos and burritos are legally sandwiches.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, May 17th. |
| 0:02.9 | I'm Trayvonle Anderson. |
| 0:04.2 | And I'm Prianka Arabindi, and this is what a day, the show where we can't tell |
| 0:08.4 | if the Welch's Company is ruining or honoring our juice box-filled childhood memories by introducing their very own line of canned |
| 0:16.8 | cocktails. |
| 0:17.8 | Their signature grape line flavor is called vodka transfusion, and I just need to know if the good people at |
| 0:26.0 | Welch is okay. We didn't ask for this. On today's show President Biden invokes executive privilege to keep recordings of his classified documents deposition private, |
| 0:39.0 | plus a judge in Indiana rules that tacos are in fact sandwiches. |
| 0:44.0 | But first, it's been a big week for ballot access all across the country. |
| 0:49.0 | On Wednesday, the Supreme Court reinstated, at least temporarily temporarily a second majority black |
| 0:54.1 | congressional district in Louisiana after roughly two years of legal |
| 0:57.9 | challenges. It's not the final say on the Louisiana map, but at the very least |
| 1:02.1 | it means that the state cannot draw a |
| 1:04.2 | different map before the presidential election. It's a win for Louisiana's black |
| 1:08.6 | voters, especially in a year when ballot access and representation are huge issues ahead of what's expected to be a very, very close election and not just at the top of the ticket for president. |
| 1:19.0 | Control of the House and the Senate are also likely to come down to razor thin margins. |
| 1:24.6 | We know that local elections happen to be decided by small numbers as well, so really, really |
| 1:29.1 | important. |
| 1:30.1 | It's also the first presidential election since Republicans went all in on the big lie that Trump won the election and used it to pass a bunch of |
| 1:38.2 | restricted voting laws at the state level all across the country. |
| 1:41.1 | Yeah, what I'm hearing is that this at minimum is good news for black voters in Louisiana. |
| 1:47.0 | So I will take that as a win. |
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