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The Voting Rights Act<\/span> is widely considered one of the most effective laws in prohibiting racial discrimination in voting. One of its key provisions has long allowed states to take race into account when drawing voting maps to ensure that nonwhite voters have electoral power. But earlier this year, the Supreme Court narrowed that provision. In her dissent, Justice Elena Kagan described the court\u2019s decision as the \u201cnow-completed demolition of the Voting Rights Act.\u201d<\/p>

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Jamelle Bouie, a political columnist for the New York Times<\/em>, often analyzes today\u2019s political stories through the lens of a historian. He\u2019s written about why the Dred Scott<\/em> Supreme Court decision to exclude African Americans from becoming citizens still matters today and how the Trump administration\u2019s war on the federal government is similar to the Iraq War\u2019s \u201cshock and awe\u201d campaign. And he\u2019s also examined the conservative movement\u2019s now-successful effort to dismantle the Voting Rights Act.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe notion that everyone deserves equal access to the ballot, that everyone deserves equal access to elections, that one person ought to mean one vote, and that there ought to be some measure of political equality has never really sat well with the political right in this country,\u201d Bouie says.<\/p>

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On this week\u2019s More To The Story<\/em>, Bouie and host Al Letson talk about how the Voting Rights Act has been defanged by the Supreme Court, why the Democratic Party is made up of \u201ca bunch of weenies,\u201d and why he believes the country is experiencing a constitutional emergency.<\/p>\n

This is an update of an episode that originally aired in <\/em>August 2025<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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