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Peter Welch: “Shelby County versus Holder removed the oversight of…”

Featuring: Peter Welch, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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Welch joins Senate Dems in condemning SCOTUS' highly partisan Louisiana v. Callais ruling

Published | Video Starts at 02:33

In 2010, Citizens United opened the door to unlimited spending. And now literally billionaires spend billions of dollars affecting our elections, really squeezing out access for everyday citizens, Republican and Democrat. By the way, Shelby County versus Holder removed the oversight of potentially discriminatory state voting restrictions. In Enrucco vs Common Cause, that was 2018. The court did not act on partisan gerrymandering, literally making it legal for there to be partisanship as the basis of a new map. (02:33–02:42)

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