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Tune in as Mike Barnicle joins Way Too Early with Ali Vitali to examine two major developments reshaping the political landscape: Florida lawmakers approving a new congressional map expected to boost Republican seats in the House ahead of the midterms, and the Supreme Court striking down Louisiana’s map as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander—another setback for the Voting Rights Act. Reflecting on the ruling, Barnicle draws a stark historical parallel: “I remember 1964. I remember Bull Connor. I remember Selma, Alabama. I remember 1965—the Voting Rights Act passed, and it was a tremendously progressive measure, and it allowed a lot of people who could not vote because of the color of their skin to vote without threat of death or disturbance. And now all of these years, a half a century later, they're trying to roll back—the Supreme Court is trying to roll back—what happened in terms of progress from 1965. That's not what America is all about,” says Barnicle after the SCOTUS ruling that hollowed out a landmark civil rights-era law.
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Tune in as Mike Barnicle joins Way Too Early with Ali Vitali to examine two major developments reshaping the political landscape: Florida lawmakers approving a new congressional map expected to boost Republican seats in the House ahead of the midterms, and the Supreme Court striking down Louisiana’s map as an unconstitutional racial gerrymander—another setback for the Voting Rights Act. Reflecting on the ruling, Barnicle draws a stark historical parallel: “I remember 1964. I remember Bull Connor. I remember Selma, Alabama. I remember 1965—the Voting Rights Act passed, and it was a tremendously progressive measure, and it allowed a lot of people who could not vote because of the color of their skin to vote without threat of death or disturbance. And now all of these years, a half a century later, they're trying to roll back—the Supreme Court is trying to roll back—what happened in terms of progress from 1965. That's not what America is all about,” says Barnicle after the SCOTUS ruling that hollowed out a landmark civil rights-era law.
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