Episode 171 | Trump SLUSH FUND Instantly UNDERMINED by CONSTITUTION!!!

[musical tone playing] So Asha, you know, we, we did talk the other week about the Supreme Court's decision in Calais.

The decision that effectively guts the Voting Rights Act, um, basically means that, um, states can redistrict in ways that disenfranchise Black Americans and other, uh, groups.

And we're starting to see the states are doing that.

Uh, how-

I was just gonna say, like, there's like-

Yeah

... there's been, like, now a rush to li- with glee to go do that in all these states.

That's right.

I mean, for example, I mean, that's just, just really one example because this is, you know, occurring elsewhere, right? We saw it in Tennessee and elsewhere recently.

You know, in Alabama, um, it's quite remarkable.

There's essentially an attempt to return to a map that they drew in 2023 that disenfranchised Black Americans in that state, and here's what's crazy about it, Asha.

They literally, um, went to...

They was, they were taken to court.

A judge found that they intentionally, intentionally discriminated against Black people, that ultimately at that time that was upheld by the Supreme Court, um, on multiple grounds.

That, that, that ruling was effectively, it was affirmed.

And then now, um, the Supreme Court is essentially, um, allowing that map to go forward, and it's, you know, this is another sort of shadow docket thing or, you know, a very, you know, very fast decision by the Supreme Court.

But there are a lot of people across this country right now who are feeling completely shut out of the electoral process as a result of rulings like that.

Yeah.

So I mean, the Supreme Court, I get, I think, sent it back to the lower court to review, 'cause the lower court had originally thrown the map out, and they said, "No, you know, go look at it." And I think the dissent wi- from, uh, Sotomayor mentioned what you just mentioned, that there was this other independent ground for striking down this map.

But I think, like, the bigger issue here is how close to the election this is, right? That, you know, normally there's a, a principle called the Per- Purcell principle, where courts are not supposed to be, I think, messing with, you know, maps and voting and all of this kind of stuff when you're getting so close to an election, because it can confuse voters.

It can depress turnout, all of this stuff.

And it seems like the court h- the Supreme Court has a very, has a double standard when it comes to the Purcell principle.

Because if I recall, in...

Uh, my, all my years me- uh, uh, mesh together.

2022, 2024.