The podcast episode examines the immediate political and historical fallout of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2026 decision in Louisiana v. Calais, which gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, enabling a wave of racially motivated redistricting across Southern states that threatens democr
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