Stateside with Kai and Carter: Stacey Abrams on why gutting of the US Voting Rights Act is ‘evil’ – podcast
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“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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— 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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_v._Callais
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— 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
https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/cert/24-109
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— 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/
https://statesunited.org/resources/louisiana-v-callais/
“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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— 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…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/14/southern-sta…
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— Alabama and Tennessee join rush of southern states moving to redraw maps after Supreme Court ruling.
https://news.google.com/stories/CAAqNggKIjBDQklTSGpvSmMzUnZj…
https://news.google.com/stories/CAAqNggKIjBDQklTSGpvSmMzUnZj…
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— 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…
https://michiganchronicle.com/southern-states-driving-the-ef…
“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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— 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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacey_Abrams
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— 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…
https://americanswhotellthetruth.org/portraits/stacey-abrams…
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— 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…
https://abcnews.com/Politics/eyes-stacey-abrams-joe-biden-pa…
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