But the Roberts Court in the Calais decision said that as long as politicians said that they had partisan goals, the racism that happened was incidental, not illegal. Yet as soon as that decision was released, Several Southern states got to work taking advantage of this new permission slip [from the Calais decision]. A permission slip for racism. And how did they do it? They started redrawing political lines. I spent Wednesday in Nashville, Tennessee, the State Capitol. (01:14–01:23)
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Asserts that Southern states are exploiting the Calais decision.
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