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Justin Jones: “The courts have been taken over, co-opted by these MAGA…”

Featuring: Justin Jones, Democratic | Tennessee House of Representatives, District 52

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INTERVIEW: Rep. Justin Jones & D.L. Hughley

Published | Video Starts at 04:19

That's strucking down the crown jewel, the civil rights movement, the Voting Rights Act. So I don't have a lot of hope for the courts right now because The courts have been taken over, co-opted by these MAGA white supremacist extremists to erode the rights of black Americans. And I think that's something different between now and the 1960s where the 1960s you had the Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education ruling for black voting rights. (04:19–04:27)

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Asserts that the courts are influenced by extremists to undermine black Americans' rights.

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