This is Brian Lair's Daily Politics Podcast from WNYC Studios.

It's Tuesday, July 30th.

I'm Matt Katz from the WNYC in Gothamist Newsroom, filling in for Brian today.

We begin today's show with words from the end of

President Biden's address at an event held yesterday celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act.

My fellow Americans, in two years, will commemorate the 250th anniversary to signing the Declaration of Independence.

That July 4th of 2026 will be a moment

not only about our past but about our future. Imagine that moment and ask yourself,

what do we want to be? The circumstances surrounding the President's question are particularly

striking. There's President Biden at an event celebrating the Civil Rights Act

at a time when the sitting Supreme Court gutted abortion rights and affirmative action.

Some fear the power that this court is wielding and they wonder what's next. Biden stood in

the library of Lyndon B. Johnson, another president who left office without running for a second

term. Biden framed this as a tension of American politics.

Do we move forward, expand rights, and include more people, or do those with power maintain their grip?

In yesterday's address, President Biden outlined major reform proposals for the Supreme Court.

Here, why he argues the time for change is now.

In recent years, extreme opinions that the Supreme Court has handed down have undermined

long-established civil rights principles and protections. In 2013, Supreme Court in Shelby County

case gutted the Voting Rights Act, opening the floodgates

to waive of restrictive voting laws that have seen states across the country pass.

In 2022, the court overrule Roe v. Wade and the right to choose.

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