Supreme Court quote: Alabama ruling and Voting Rights contradiction

Added: 2026-05-22

[00:00:00]Ashley just raised an important point, which is that this Supreme Court in 2023 said that Alabama needed to have that second district.

[00:00:10]>> Yep. And they did so on the basis of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. Um, let me just read a part of the ruling.

[00:00:17]This was written by Justice the Chief Justice John Roberts. He says, "We held over 40 years ago that even Section 1 of the 15th Amendment prohibits only purposeful discrimination. The prior decisions of this court foreclose any argument that Congress may not, pursuant to Section 2 of the 15th Amendment, outlaw voting practices that are discriminatory in effect. Discriminatory