If it walks like a racial gerrymander and talks like a racial gerrymander, it’s definitely a partisan gerrymander.
SCOTUS turned into a trial court this week as conservatives sought to refute evidence of a racial gerrymander in South CarolinaListen on your computer:These links will only work if you're on the device you listen to podcasts on. We do not support Stitcher at this time.In this week’s big voting rights case,the Supreme Court heard arguments concerning whether to uphold a South Carolina congressional map that is avowedly partisan .
On this week’s Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick is joined by Leah Aden, senior counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund who argued the case on behalf of the South Carolina Conference of the NAACP, and Taiwan Scott - a South Carolina voter and individual plaintiff in the case, who says the electoral power of his Gulla Geechee community is suppressed by the gerrymander.
Dahlia Lithwick, one of the nation’s foremost legal commentators, tells the gripping and heroic story of the women lawyers who fought the racism, sexism, and xenophobia of Donald Trump’s presidency—and won.
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