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Peter Welch: “The court has gutted one of the last remaining enforceable…”

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 03:06

The court did not act on partisan gerrymandering, literally making it legal for there to be partisanship as the basis of a new map. And of course, in Trump v. United States, that his court basically put the president above the law. The court has gutted one of the last remaining enforceable sections of the Voting Rights Act. And it's going to leave many communities of color with few enforceable tools to fight unfair maps. Equally concerning is how the legislative branch has allowed that to happen. (03:06–03:12)

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