Gavin Newsom: “The Shelby county decision in the Supreme Court, a 5-4…”

“Mr. Attorney General, so much of what you tried to achieve and pursue in 2017 had a little bit of its origin story in what happened with The Shelby county decision in the Supreme Court, a 5-4 decision in 2013. Remind everybody what happened at the Supreme Court in 2013. 2013, the Supreme Court, as you said in a 5, 4 decision, Chief Justice Roberts writing for the majority, and he stated very famously in his majority opinion that America has changed.” (01:59–02:14)

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