00:00The Supreme Court just allowed states to discriminate against Black voters,
00:02provided they claim they're discriminating against Democratic voters.
00:05And since most Black voters in the United States are Democrats,
00:08it makes it almost impossible to prove racism under the Supreme Court's new rule.
00:11This is the exact opposite of what the Voting Rights Act of 1965 allows.
00:15That act, which is a crowning achievement of the civil rights movement,
00:18says that when there's a majority-minority district,
00:21you can't crack that district by taking the voters in it and splitting them up
00:25among lots of other districts so that the Black folks can't elect a Black candidate
00:29since they're mixed up with majority white voters in the other districts.
00:32Two conservative constitutional ideas are behind this terrible decision.
00:35The first is the idea that partisan gerrymandering can't possibly violate the principle of one person, one vote.
00:41We all understand that that's preposterous.
00:43In practice, we've got a race to the bottom where Democratic states and Republican states
00:47are fighting each other to see how much they can gerrymander districts.
00:50And effectively, that means that if you're not in the majority party,
00:53your vote will be made to be worth nothing.
00:55The second idea that's behind this is the notion that racial discrimination
00:58is only wrong when it's caused by an intentional act of a racist
01:03and not when it's caused by the background conditions
01:06that were created by the history of racism and discrimination.
01:10The conservative justices have been pushing that idea since the 1970s.
01:14And what they've done over the last 50 years is gradually use it to take away
01:18the power of Congress to enforce the provisions of the Constitution
01:21that ban racial discrimination.
01:23The idea here is that only racial intent or animus
01:27can be ruled unconstitutional or blocked by Congress.
01:30The upshot is that once racial discrimination is entrenched in the system,
01:33Congress will not be allowed to do anything about it.
01:36It will be forced to stay in place potentially forever.
01:41The perverse effect of today's decision is that we're going to see fewer black congressmen, not more.
01:44The Supreme Court is protecting and enabling discrimination, not blocking it.
01:49There are people in jail.
01:49They can none of the revive them or prevent movements and escape from a violence.
01:49Theînol dicho is that they use broken it back and forth,
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