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Stateside with Kai and Carter: Stacey Abrams on why gutting of the US Voting Rights Act is ‘evil’ – podcast

The Guardian · 🇬🇧 public United Kingdom · · 138 words · By Kai Wright; Anabel Bacon; Monica Espitia; Ivan Kuraev; Jonathan Menjivar
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Support the Guardian: theguardian.com/sciencepod Stateside with Kai and Carter: Stacey Abrams on why gutting of the US Voting Rights Act is ‘evil’ – podcast The US supreme court dealt a devastating blow to the 1965 Voting Rights Act when it ruled in Louisiana…

Claims checked 3
Techniques found 1
Topics 3

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Center72%
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Support the Guardian: theguardian.com/sciencepod Stateside with Kai and Carter: Stacey Abrams on why gutting of the US Voting Rights Act is ‘evil’ – podcast The US supreme court dealt a devastating blow to the 1965 Voting Rights Act when it ruled in Louisiana…

Why it matters

Southern states from Tennessee to Alabama have rushed to erase majority-Black districts, sparking chaos for the midterm elections.

Common ground

Kai Wright talks to Stacey Abrams, a voting rights activist and former Georgia house minority leader, about the fallout from the decision, and why, despite it all, she still believes the way forward lies in engaging more voters to participate in democracy.

Perspective signals

The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

open_in_new Read the original article: https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2026/may/16/stateside-with-kai-and-car…

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 3 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Stacey Abrams, a voting rights activist and former Georgia house minority leader”
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Wikipedia and other authoritative sources explicitly confirm that Stacey Abrams is a voting rights activist and served as the minority leader of the Georgia House of Representatives from 2011 to 2017.
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web search NEUTRAL — Stacey Yvonne Abrams is an American politician, lawyer, voting rights activist, and author who served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2007 to 2017, serving as minority leader from 2011 to…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacey_Abrams
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web search NEUTRAL — Georgia House Minority Leader (2010). Candidate for Georgia Governor (2018).Her parents were participants in the Civil Rights Movement, and Abrams is a member of the first generation of Americans to g…
https://americanswhotellthetruth.org/portraits/stacey-abrams…
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web search NEUTRAL — Abrams, who served as minority leader in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2011 to 2017, gained national prominence during her 2018 bid to become the nation's first Black female governor.
https://abcnews.com/Politics/eyes-stacey-abrams-joe-biden-pa…
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Claim 2: “The US supreme court dealt a devastating blow to the 1965 Voting Rights Act when it ruled in Louisiana v Callais in April that states cannot consider race in redistricting.”
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The claim states the Court ruled that states 'cannot consider race in redistricting'. However, the provided evidence for Louisiana v. Callais shows conflicting outcomes: one source states the court 'blocked the state from using the original map and ordered the legislature to adopt a new map with two majority-Black districts', while another mentions the case was heard in March 2025 and involved arguments that the use of race was not in furtherance of a compelling interest. The claim's assertion of a 'devastating blow' is contradicted by the evidence that the court actually ordered the creation of more majority-Black districts in that specific case.
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web search NEUTRAL — Louisiana v. Callais, consolidated with Robinson v. Callais, 608 U.S. ___ (2026), is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States concerning racial gerrymandering and redistricting in…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_v._Callais
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web search NEUTRAL — The Supreme Court first heard this case on March 24, 2025, but later ordered supplemental briefing and reargument.Callais argues that SB8 is unconstitutional because the use of race in redistricting w…
https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/cert/24-109
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web search NEUTRAL — Louisiana v. Callais — Voting Rights Act (LA). Supreme Court of the United States.The court blocked the state from using the original map and ordered the legislature to adopt a new map with two majori…
https://statesunited.org/resources/louisiana-v-callais/
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Claim 3: “Southern states from Tennessee to Alabama have rushed to erase majority-Black districts”
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Multiple independent web sources confirm that Southern states, specifically Alabama and Tennessee, are moving to redraw maps to eliminate or split majority-Black districts following Supreme Court rulings.
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web search NEUTRAL — Louisiana, Alabama, Tennessee and more are pushing to eliminate Democratic districts after supreme court ruling.Alabama has successfully petitioned the US supreme court to allow it to eliminate a dist…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/14/southern-sta…
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web search NEUTRAL — Alabama and Tennessee join rush of southern states moving to redraw maps after Supreme Court ruling.
https://news.google.com/stories/CAAqNggKIjBDQklTSGpvSmMzUnZj…
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web search NEUTRAL — Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall is currently arguing for the injunction to be lifted. Elsewhere, Tennessee lawmakers successfully pushed through a new congressional map on May 7, splitting the…
https://michiganchronicle.com/southern-states-driving-the-ef…
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