Happy Hour 277: How SCOTUS Just Changed Voting Rights in Texas - with Legal Defense Fund and Texas Civil Rights Project

On April 29, on a party line vote, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Louisiana v. Callais, to strip one of the most consequential protections against discrimination in our elections—Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. The ruling enables years of racial inequality to come, further eroding fair representation and the equal rights of Black and brown voters in the South. To hear more about the case and how it relates to Texas, we're joined by an attorney who worked on the Louisiana v. Callais case, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) attorney Victoria Wenger, and also by Texas Civil Rights Project Voting Rights Outreach Coordinator La’Dereka Sylvan.  Learn more about the LDF at https://www.naacpldf.org/.Learn more about the Callais case at https://www.naacpldf.org/press-release/supreme-court-strikes-down-louisiana-map-and-destroys-key-voting-rights-act-provision/.Learn more about the Texas Civil Rights Project at https://www.txcivilrights.org/.Thanks for listening! Learn more about Progress Texas and how you can support our ongoing work at https://progresstexas.org/.