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>> it's exactly what the case between the united states supreme court turned on, the areas we must use to fight. voting rights act although it was somewhat gutted by the decision of the supreme court in shelby, article two still says you cannot intentionally discriminate against a population of black or brown or any racial class in order to minimize the effective voting power of that racial block. the supreme court in its decision didn't disagree with them, in fact, the lower courts said there was evidence of discrimination but the courts said they should go forward simply as a matter of conve...

Here. justice elena kagan wrote the dissension for the minority. she wrote black alabamans will suffer clear vote deluilution. what does this mean for black voters there? >> thank you. thank you for the invitation to join you. it means that black voting power will be deleted. it means that voters in alabama won't be protected when it comes to the ability to elect candidates of choice. this u.s. supreme court is another blow to the voting rights act of 1965. what we continue to find, because the senate, the u.s. senate, has not acted, had the opportunity to act but because of a rule, did not ac...

Argument. >> there is a lot wrong with that argument. it allows a map to stay in place that a three-judge federal court 230u7bd found to found to be discriminatory against black alabamaens. we represent individuals and black organizations, in alabama, that have filed a lawsuit, under the voting rights act, alleging that the new map that you just displayed is a dilution of black voting power. and we went through an entire seven-day hearing with 17 witnesses, and with a panel of judges, two of whom were trump appointees, that means the majority of the panel were trump appointees and they had the...

Higher the black population and their argument from voting rights groups and civil rights groups now as it was ten years ago when this original map was drawn is if you'll draw the lines in all these funny shapes it would be easy. you could do this. and you could do this. and you could create at least two districts dominated by black voters and create congressional districts that would favor the democrats. that's what they are arguing. if you want to take into account systemic cracism in the south, draw the lines in a way that give them more voting power, not in a way that gives them less votin...

Discriminatory and black alabamians. we have illegal funds that represents a co-counsel -- we represent individuals and black organizations and alabama have filed a lawsuit under the william rights act alleging that the new map that you just displayed is a dilution of black voting power, and we went through an entire seven-day hearing with 17 witnesses with a panel of judges with two of whom were trump appointees. that means the majority of the panel for trump appointees and after hearing the record evidence decided, in a 225-page decision, that a map that you displayed on the screen was racia...