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Transcripts for MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show 20240604 03:14:00

lot of us who don t live in those areas. that s why it was so disproportionately of native american voters to have these policies in place. those are the things the supreme court upheld. for people never faced any impediment to their voting, it becomes difficult to understand that for people who do face impediments to voting, it s enough to make you not vote. thanks for your detail and the explanation you provided for what happened. cecilia wong, the deputy legal director of the aclu. one more thing to know about the ruling on voting rights this week, the plaintiff in that case, the ones arguing that those voting restrictions were illegal, the plaintiff was the democratic party, the dnc, on the national and individual state level. the democratic party has been fighting tooth and nail to roll back these republican-led restrictions on voting. this week was a setback in that fight. the latest challenge in arizona

Transcripts for MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show 20240604 03:07:00

to the ballot box for people who are not white. this ruling from the supreme court this week is basically a big green light to republican legislatures which are trying to make it harder for people to vote. it is signaling any court challenges that we have seen this year could fail like the challenge to the arizona law just did. if you are on that side of the fight, if you are trying to knock down laws that make it harder to vote, where is your head at right now? joining us now, cecilia wong at the aclu. they filed a brief with the supreme court arguing the arizona laws violated section 2 of the voting rights act. thank you for being with us this evening. i think that s not common language for many people who are relatively well read on the topic. what does that mean? the voting rights act says you candidate make laws that make it harder for an identifiable group to vote. what congress meant when it enacted the latest version of section 2 of the voting rights

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