Science Weekly | Stateside with Kai and Carter - Stacey Abrams on why gutting of the US Voting Rights Act is ‘evil’
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The winner of Louisiana's last governor's race received 570,000 votes.
The Tennessee Senate minority leader asked the author of the redistricting bill where the actual bill text was.
The author of the Tennessee redistricting bill said that a picture was enough.
The United States is in a competitive authoritarian state.
The Supreme Court struck down the Voting Rights Act's federal preclearance requirement in 2013.
The Supreme Court ruled that voting-rights plaintiffs must prove explicit intentional racism rather than only a discriminatory outcome.
The Supreme Court ruled that a Voting Rights Act plaintiff must prove explicit intentional racism in the writing of a challenged law.
Tens of thousands of ballots in Louisiana were thrown into legal limbo.
The Supreme Court ruled that Alabama could use an old map in the midterm elections discussed in the podcast.
After the Louisiana v. Calais ruling, the Supreme Court ruled that Alabama could use an old congressional map in midterm elections.
The Supreme Court had previously said the same Alabama map violated the Voting Rights Act.
In 1867, about 66% of Black men in Mississippi were registered to vote.
About 66% of Black men in Mississippi were registered to vote in 1867.
By 1955, fewer than 5% of Black people in Mississippi were registered to vote.
Stacey Abrams testified against the Tennessee legislature's plan to eliminate its last remaining majority-Black district.
Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act has been stripped away.
Tennessee lawmakers eliminated the state's last remaining Black-majority district after Stacey Abrams testified.
The author of the Tennessee redistricting bill said a picture was enough.
During Jim Crow, the U.S. Constitution did not prohibit racial discrimination outside voting rights.
Literacy tests applied to everyone under Jim Crow voting laws.
Literacy tests under Jim Crow applied to everyone.
After Tennessee districts were cracked, three districts each had about 33% Black participation.
Louisiana's last governor's race was decided by 36% of the population.
Louisiana's congressional primary elections were already in progress when the governor paused them.
Stacey Abrams's father was arrested at age 14 for voter-registration work in Mississippi.
The Tennessee legislature eliminated the last remaining majority-Black district after Stacey Abrams testified against the plan.
The Tennessee Senate minority leader asked the bill's author where the actual text was.
The author of the Tennessee redistricting bill did not bring the bill text to the hearing.
The Fifteenth Amendment gave Black men the right to vote.
Poll taxes under Jim Crow applied to everyone.
Most Black people in the post-slavery context could not pass literacy tests.
Most Black people after slavery could not pass literacy tests.
Tennessee has one of the lowest voter registration rates in the United States.
Tens of thousands of Louisiana ballots were thrown into legal limbo.
The Fifteenth Amendment prohibited the use of race in voting laws.
The United States is projected to become majority-minority in 2046.
Tennessee had one remaining majority-Black district before the state legislature acted to remove it.
Tennessee's state legislature eliminated the state's last remaining majority-Black district.
Under the Voting Rights Act, covered jurisdictions had to get federal clearance before changing voting laws.
Under the Voting Rights Act preclearance regime, covered jurisdictions had to get federal clearance before changing voting-rights laws.
In 2013, the Supreme Court threw out part of the Voting Rights Act's preclearance enforcement system.
The Supreme Court ruled that a racially discriminatory outcome is not sufficient by itself for a Voting Rights Act lawsuit.
Louisiana's governor paused Louisiana's congressional primary elections.
Louisiana's governor paused the state's congressional primary elections.
The Alabama congressional map allowed by the Supreme Court had previously been found to violate the Voting Rights Act.
Fewer than 5% of Black people in Mississippi were registered to vote by 1955.
Within a couple of years after the Voting Rights Act passed, Black voter registration in Mississippi rose into the 60% range.
Stacey Abrams lost the 2018 Georgia governor's race by about 1.7 percentage points.
Stacey Abrams testified in Tennessee the week before the podcast conversation.
Stacey Abrams testified against the Tennessee legislature's intent to eliminate the state's last remaining Black-majority district.
In the 1982 Voting Rights Act reauthorization, Congress decided plaintiffs did not have to prove racist intent to show racial discrimination.
Congress decided in 1982 that Voting Rights Act plaintiffs should not have to prove racist intent to show racial discrimination.
Black women were not given the right to vote for a while after the Fifteenth Amendment.
Black women were not given the right to vote when Black men were enfranchised under the Fifteenth Amendment.
Jim Crow laws could explicitly use race in physical segregation.
Jim Crow laws could use race explicitly in physical segregation.
Jim Crow laws could explicitly use race in determining access to jobs.
Jim Crow laws could use race explicitly in access to jobs.
The Fifteenth Amendment prohibited using race in voting laws.
Jim Crow voting laws used race-neutral rules.
Poll taxes applied to everyone under Jim Crow voting laws.
Most newly freed Black people had been prohibited from learning to read.
The Voting Rights Act was renewed in 1975.
The Fifteenth Amendment says the right to vote cannot be prohibited based on race.
Black voter turnout exceeded white voter turnout only when Barack Obama was on the ballot.
Black voter turnout has declined since 2012.
Within a few years of the Voting Rights Act's passage, Black voter registration in Mississippi rose back into the 60% range.
Congress reauthorized the Voting Rights Act in 1982.
The U.S. Constitution has never contained an explicit affirmative right to vote.
Louisiana's congressional primary elections were already in progress when they were paused.
Women could not vote in Mississippi in 1867.
The Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965.
Stacey Abrams ran for governor of Georgia in 2018.
If Stacey Abrams had won the 2018 Georgia governor's race, she would have been the first Black female governor in the United States.
Stacey Abrams would have been the first Black woman governor in the United States if she had won the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election.
Stacey Abrams lost the 2018 Georgia governor's race to Brian Kemp.
Brian Kemp defeated Stacey Abrams in the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election.
Stacey Abrams argued that voter suppression contributed to her 2018 Georgia gubernatorial loss.
Stacey Abrams argued that voter suppression contributed to her loss in the 2018 Georgia governor's race.
Stacey Abrams testified before the Tennessee Senate Judiciary Committee.
The Voting Rights Act was renewed in 1970.
The Voting Rights Act was renewed in 1982.
Stacey Abrams was the Democratic leader in the Georgia General Assembly.