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Cory Booker: “What's happened now at the Supreme Court is an upending of…”

Featuring: Cory Booker, Democratic | U.S. Senate, New Jersey

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Sen. Cory Booker speaks in Birmingham amid Supreme Court redistricting decision

Published | Video Starts at 00:42

We believe, and I know Alabama, I played football in the PAC tent, y' all know football down here, that we want a level playing field to compete. What's happened now at the Supreme Court is an upending of that level playing field, an upending of that fairness and setting us back. There are a lot of great angels looking down, great Alabamians of old that are looking down right now and are weeping at what happened. But weeping may endure through the night. (00:42–00:50)

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Asserts that the Supreme Court's decision upended fairness and set back progress.

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