
101: Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse on The Right’s 50-Year Scheme to Capture SCOTUS
The Al Franken Podcast
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Did Citizens United and Shelby County Get Wrongly Decided?
In the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Justice Roberts said we didn't need preclearance anymore because it worked. After Shelby's stays in jurisdictions, it had previously been covered by Title V suddenly, well, went back to their old ways. The right-wing takeover of the Supreme Court and of the Circuit and District Courts has undermined our democracy.
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