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Live from the Aspen Ideas Festival: 2022-23 Supreme Court Review

We the People

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The History of the Voting Rights Act

The Voting Rights Act is one of the signature examples of Congress using its Section 5 powers to say, here's how we understand equality to be. This was not a partisan issue in 1965. Every one of the extensions and amendments were signed into law by a Republican president. And so, you know, politics didn't used to have the kind of racial connotations in the late 20th century that it now seems to be having again.

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