Cory Booker: “We have a Supreme Court, six members who are sending us back…”

“Blacks were prevented from voting by all kind of means, from terrorism and lynching all the way to legislators making it difficult for blacks to vote. And now We have a Supreme Court, six members who are sending us back to that long almost century where black political leadership and black electoral fairness was not represented in the House of Representatives. And we're going to see now with surgical like precision, state house after state house in Southern states, them writing maps to try to eviscerate black leadership.” (01:19–01:34)

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