Peter Welch: “The Roberts Court has achieved the same outcome as Jim Crow…”

“And whether the Supreme Court intended to or not, by blessing partisan gerrymandering on the one hand, while gutting the Voting Rights act, The Roberts Court has achieved the same outcome as Jim Crow laws in the south had done generations before. It's removed African American representation on a massive scale. That is fact. That's not an assertion. That's a fact. Mr. Chairman, I believe we are at such a crossroads here, and we are at a race to the bottom.” (05:02–05:12)

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