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Stacey Abrams: “The Roberts Court in the Calais decision said that as long…”

Featuring: Stacey Abrams, Democratic | Former Candidate, Governor of Georgia

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This outcome mattered more than the intent. Basically, to prove harm, you only needed to be a detective, not a psychic. 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. A permission slip for racism. And how did they do it? (01:04–01:15)

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Asserts that the Calais decision allows partisan goals to justify racial impacts.

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