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A South Carolina without a single Black representative would be a return to Jim Crow. I went on Fox to explain that the Supreme Court's decision allowing states to eliminate Black majority districts reverses the very progress of the Civil Rights era. It's not about partisanship, but justice. Sunday Briefing

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The Supreme Court is threatening to strike down Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the provision that guarantees Black Americans an equal opportunity to elect candidates of their choice. The loss of Section 2 would mark the gravest collapse of Black representation in Congress since the end of Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow. Before the Voting Rights Act, most of the South went nearly a century without electing a single Black representative.

The Supreme Court is threatening to strike down Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, the provision that guarantees Black Americans an equal opportunity to elect candidates of their choice. The loss of Section 2 would mark the gravest collapse of Black representation in Congress since the end of Reconstruction and the rise of Jim Crow. Before the Voting Rights Act, most of the South went nearly a century without electing a single Black representative.

Ritchie Torres

61,955 views • 9 months ago

The Supreme Court's recent decision on the Voting Rights Act is supercharging President Trump's effort to redraw districts and try to create a permanent Republican majority. We must ban partisan gerrymandering and restore the Voting Rights Act.

The Supreme Court's recent decision on the Voting Rights Act is supercharging President Trump's effort to redraw districts and try to create a permanent Republican majority. We must ban partisan gerrymandering and restore the Voting Rights Act.

Sen. Elissa Slotkin

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The Supreme Court's conservative majority is gutting our rights—and they aren't even pretending to justify it with written opinions. @NeeraTanden: "Justice Amy Coney Barrett has time to write a memoir, but not a decision."

The Supreme Court's conservative majority is gutting our rights—and they aren't even pretending to justify it with written opinions. @NeeraTanden: "Justice Amy Coney Barrett has time to write a memoir, but not a decision."

CAP Action

167,655 views • 11 months ago

Members of the Supreme Court's conservative majority appeared open Wednesday to raising the bar for successfully challenging voting maps under a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act, a decision that would weaken the landmark law and limit the consideration of race in the drawing of congressional districts.

Members of the Supreme Court's conservative majority appeared open Wednesday to raising the bar for successfully challenging voting maps under a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act, a decision that would weaken the landmark law and limit the consideration of race in the drawing of congressional districts.

CBS Evening News

18,142 views • 10 months ago

After the Supreme Court's decision to restrict the Voting Rights Act, I'm reflecting on my trip to Selma for the 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday. Despite the hardships the heroes of the Civil Rights Movement faced, they marched on. So must we. We cannot afford not to.

After the Supreme Court's decision to restrict the Voting Rights Act, I'm reflecting on my trip to Selma for the 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday. Despite the hardships the heroes of the Civil Rights Movement faced, they marched on. So must we. We cannot afford not to.

NY AG James

23,737 views • 3 months ago

Republicans are not attacking black peoples rights. Republicans just aren’t allowing democrats to use the VRA and black people to essentially guarantee democrat seats that wouldn’t exist in red states without districts that were created by race.

Republicans are not attacking black peoples rights. Republicans just aren’t allowing democrats to use the VRA and black people to essentially guarantee democrat seats that wouldn’t exist in red states without districts that were created by race.

Jeffery Mead

68,053 views • 3 months ago

NYT’s Jamelle Bouie just called the Supreme Court’s colorblind redistricting ruling “pure sophistry” and compared it to Jim Crow tactics. Bouie himself admits that “race tracks partisanship in the South” and there is a “direct relationship between race and partisanship.” Yet he still insists districts must be drawn according to skin color. The Supreme Court rejected this, ruling that voters cannot be classified by race for political advantage.

NYT’s Jamelle Bouie just called the Supreme Court’s colorblind redistricting ruling “pure sophistry” and compared it to Jim Crow tactics. Bouie himself admits that “race tracks partisanship in the South” and there is a “direct relationship between race and partisanship.” Yet he still insists districts must be drawn according to skin color. The Supreme Court rejected this, ruling that voters cannot be classified by race for political advantage.

Media Lies

19,940 views • 3 months ago

🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: The Supreme Court just gave Alabama the green light to redraw its congressional maps. The goal: eliminate one of two majority-Black congressional districts before the 2026 midterms. Louisiana cancelled a live election to do it. Florida signed new maps to flip 4 seats. Tennessee erased majority-Black Memphis. Virginia’s voter-approved map was struck down 4-3. Mississippi, Alabama and South Carolina all pushing simultaneously. Now the Supreme Court is helping. This is a coordinated national campaign to make Black votes disappear before November.

🚨 MAJOR BREAKING: The Supreme Court just gave Alabama the green light to redraw its congressional maps. The goal: eliminate one of two majority-Black congressional districts before the 2026 midterms. Louisiana cancelled a live election to do it. Florida signed new maps to flip 4 seats. Tennessee erased majority-Black Memphis. Virginia’s voter-approved map was struck down 4-3. Mississippi, Alabama and South Carolina all pushing simultaneously. Now the Supreme Court is helping. This is a coordinated national campaign to make Black votes disappear before November.

Brian Allen

39,924 views • 3 months ago

Tennessee Republicans approved a new congressional map dismantling a majority-Black US House district centered on Memphis, as several other Southern states seek to leverage last week's Supreme Court decision that severely weakened the Voting Rights Act

Tennessee Republicans approved a new congressional map dismantling a majority-Black US House district centered on Memphis, as several other Southern states seek to leverage last week's Supreme Court decision that severely weakened the Voting Rights Act

Reuters

40,653 views • 3 months ago

"This is a disastrous manifesto that would take us back decades, if not centuries, in terms of the progress that we've made on civil rights, on constitutional rights. This is a threat to democracy, and it is a special, specific threat to Black people." Janai Nelson on MSNBC

"This is a disastrous manifesto that would take us back decades, if not centuries, in terms of the progress that we've made on civil rights, on constitutional rights. This is a threat to democracy, and it is a special, specific threat to Black people." Janai Nelson on MSNBC

Legal Defense Fund

43,532 views • 1 year ago

Dr. Dr. Peniel E. Joseph 🇭🇹🇺🇸, who has written extensively about the Jim Crow era, brings some much needed historical context: "It's astonishing to try to romanticize the Jim Crow era and really to decontextualize the LBJ years in American history... The idea that Black people suddenly had a reversal of fortune because of the Democratic party is asinine."

Dr. Dr. Peniel E. Joseph 🇭🇹🇺🇸, who has written extensively about the Jim Crow era, brings some much needed historical context: "It's astonishing to try to romanticize the Jim Crow era and really to decontextualize the LBJ years in American history... The idea that Black people suddenly had a reversal of fortune because of the Democratic party is asinine."

Abby D. Phillip

116,852 views • 2 years ago

.AAGHarmeetDhillon responds to people, like the women of The View, who say the Supreme Court's gerrymandering decision is a step back towards the Jim Crow era: “I’m a woman who grew up in the deep south and there was the Ku Klux Klan in my county. That was scary, but guess what? It isn’t there anymore. It is not mainstream. It is fringe. Our country has come so far. We have a diverse and beautiful society, and we should be proud of that. [But] we should stop putting our thumb on the scale. It’s not fair to all Americans and it is simply perpetuating a racist history that we should be proud to be able to have moved past in our country. Gerrymandered districts have consequences on both sides... [Now] what you're going to have is more competitive districts, eventually, for everybody."

.AAGHarmeetDhillon responds to people, like the women of The View, who say the Supreme Court's gerrymandering decision is a step back towards the Jim Crow era: “I’m a woman who grew up in the deep south and there was the Ku Klux Klan in my county. That was scary, but guess what? It isn’t there anymore. It is not mainstream. It is fringe. Our country has come so far. We have a diverse and beautiful society, and we should be proud of that. [But] we should stop putting our thumb on the scale. It’s not fair to all Americans and it is simply perpetuating a racist history that we should be proud to be able to have moved past in our country. Gerrymandered districts have consequences on both sides... [Now] what you're going to have is more competitive districts, eventually, for everybody."

Glenn Beck

82,524 views • 3 months ago

AOC: “When you are seeing states like Tennessee want to wipe out every black representative on the map in these states, we have an obligation as Americans to stand." Tennessee’s new districts didn’t draw out a black representative. Tennessee may now elect a black representative, however.

AOC: “When you are seeing states like Tennessee want to wipe out every black representative on the map in these states, we have an obligation as Americans to stand." Tennessee’s new districts didn’t draw out a black representative. Tennessee may now elect a black representative, however.

Western Lensman

58,771 views • 3 months ago

U.S. Rep. Sean Casten (D-IL) says the Supreme Court's Louisiana v. Callais decision shows they're angry about "the outcome of the civil war" and "Reconstruction era amendments to our Constitution." "Now, Chief Justice Roberts has said that we now live in a colorblind society, to which I would ask you all, does your answer to those questions depend on whether their robe is white or black? Because make absolutely no mistake: The agenda of this Supreme Court and the agenda of the Klan are far too similar."

U.S. Rep. Sean Casten (D-IL) says the Supreme Court's Louisiana v. Callais decision shows they're angry about "the outcome of the civil war" and "Reconstruction era amendments to our Constitution." "Now, Chief Justice Roberts has said that we now live in a colorblind society, to which I would ask you all, does your answer to those questions depend on whether their robe is white or black? Because make absolutely no mistake: The agenda of this Supreme Court and the agenda of the Klan are far too similar."

Heartland Signal

25,309 views • 3 months ago

Yesterday, the Supreme Court's conservative majority did something that voting rights advocates have feared for years: they weakened Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, one of the last major pillars of 60 years of civil rights progress. Section 2 was how we ensured Black, Latino, and other minority communities had a real shot at electing representatives who reflect their priorities. Now, to challenge a discriminatory map, you have to prove intentional discrimination. That is an almost impossible bar to clear. The Congressional Black Caucus could lose 30% of its membership as a direct result. Within hours of the decision, Republicans in Florida, Louisiana, Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia, and Mississippi are already having conversations about redrawing maps. Partisan gerrymandering was already out of control. This decision just took the guardrails off completely. We have to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and establish independent redistricting commissions nationwide, and we need to do it now.

Yesterday, the Supreme Court's conservative majority did something that voting rights advocates have feared for years: they weakened Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, one of the last major pillars of 60 years of civil rights progress. Section 2 was how we ensured Black, Latino, and other minority communities had a real shot at electing representatives who reflect their priorities. Now, to challenge a discriminatory map, you have to prove intentional discrimination. That is an almost impossible bar to clear. The Congressional Black Caucus could lose 30% of its membership as a direct result. Within hours of the decision, Republicans in Florida, Louisiana, Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia, and Mississippi are already having conversations about redrawing maps. Partisan gerrymandering was already out of control. This decision just took the guardrails off completely. We have to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and establish independent redistricting commissions nationwide, and we need to do it now.

Rep. Mike Levin

11,179 views • 3 months ago

STOP PLAYING GAMES WITH BLACK PEOPLE, AND BLACK PEOPLE STOP ALLOWING THESE GAMES TO BE PLAYED WITH YOU!!! thedefiantlawyers an actual civil rights attorney provides a detailed analysis of how Democrats secured the Voting Rights Act (VRA) for Black Americans. However, the GOP undermined it with the appointment of three justices by #Trump. Additionally, he explains how certain pro-Black impostors contribute to this issue by discouraging Black individuals from voting or urging them to support Trump. And here we are: trump has now instructed his DOJ to target #Black and #Latino-majority #voting districts across the country — using the #SupremeCourt’s recent decision gutting the #VotingRightsAct as a legal weapon.

STOP PLAYING GAMES WITH BLACK PEOPLE, AND BLACK PEOPLE STOP ALLOWING THESE GAMES TO BE PLAYED WITH YOU!!! thedefiantlawyers an actual civil rights attorney provides a detailed analysis of how Democrats secured the Voting Rights Act (VRA) for Black Americans. However, the GOP undermined it with the appointment of three justices by #Trump. Additionally, he explains how certain pro-Black impostors contribute to this issue by discouraging Black individuals from voting or urging them to support Trump. And here we are: trump has now instructed his DOJ to target #Black and #Latino-majority #voting districts across the country — using the #SupremeCourt’s recent decision gutting the #VotingRightsAct as a legal weapon.

BMB Empower Network

12,597 views • 3 months ago

EXCLUSIVE: Alabama AG Steve Marshall tells LiveNOW from FOX he wants the state GOP to push for 2 additional red districts. "7-0 is the number that we need in Alabama." This would eliminate the state's two Democratic/Black opportunity districts following a SCOTUS decision.

EXCLUSIVE: Alabama AG Steve Marshall tells LiveNOW from FOX he wants the state GOP to push for 2 additional red districts. "7-0 is the number that we need in Alabama." This would eliminate the state's two Democratic/Black opportunity districts following a SCOTUS decision.

Ryan Schmelz

38,069 views • 3 months ago

Joy Reid asks Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) to explain saying, “during Jim Crow the Black family was together,” using a poignant example of the horrors of Jim Crow. "You're going to answer my question now and not filibuster." Watch Donalds' response:

Joy Reid asks Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) to explain saying, “during Jim Crow the Black family was together,” using a poignant example of the horrors of Jim Crow. "You're going to answer my question now and not filibuster." Watch Donalds' response:

The ReidOut

46,854 views • 2 years ago

Republican officials in several Southern states are racing to redraw their congressional maps, reacting to the seismic Supreme Court decision that weakened a section of the Voting Rights Act about majority-minority districts. As CBS News’ Ed O'Keefe reports, Alabama is the latest state moving to revise its congressional lines ahead of the November midterm elections.

Republican officials in several Southern states are racing to redraw their congressional maps, reacting to the seismic Supreme Court decision that weakened a section of the Voting Rights Act about majority-minority districts. As CBS News’ Ed O'Keefe reports, Alabama is the latest state moving to revise its congressional lines ahead of the November midterm elections.

CBS News

14,057 views • 3 months ago