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Rights act struggles, georgia in the south. president and counsel of the naacp legal defense fund. joins me now. it's great to have. you >> first, your reaction to what we saw transpire in this race. as someone who has litigated throughout the south. voting rights cases, have been outspoken by tums from politicians to suppress the vote. to essentially use mechanisms to keep black people out of the voting power and suppress black voters. last night meant. >> you have to connect last night to january 5th 2021. when there was the election of senator warnock and ossoff. which was a huge deal, we d...
They basically told in ohio the state supreme court to take long off off a short pier. but these three alone, that's three seats. alabama, louisiana, florida, remove three seats that likely would've gone to the democrat. this is the council for the naacp defense fund. she worked on the cases i just mentioned and she joins me now. great to have you. can you kind of lay out the case of what current u.s. voting rights law, the voting rights act, 14th amendment, says about the questions that were issued in the two clear cases in alabama and louisiana? >> sure, chris, thanks. so the voting i writin...
Suppression, specifically on suppressing the black vote. if you look at runoff elections you will see them in formerly slave-owning states like georgia. after the civil war, black men were able to vote. the former slave owners are standing toe to toe with the people they used to own, the black men who they used to own. their thought was how can i limit their voting power. this is coming from civil rights leaders and naacp. this comes from limiting the power of the black vote. that's why you have to have 50% plus one vote to win a statewide election here in georgia. it is part of the reason why...
Georgia for this runoff election. >> and i got to ask you, you know, this idea of a runoff election especially here in the south in georgia, it has a troubling history especially when it came to the purpose with the rules. can you explain that? >> reporter: yeah. if you really sit town and talk with someone at the georgia naacp or civil rights leaders, this began in the reconstruction area after civil war. it was a way to limit the power of black voters because there were so many black people in the states that were brought here against their will to work and then once they were emancipated bl...