Host Al Sharpton stated, “Speaking concerning the tried gerrymander. You survived this week, one in every of a number of, that Southern Republicans have taken up because the Supreme Court docket’s VRA determination final month. Your seat was saved, fortunately. However the week additionally ended with Louisiana axing one in every of its majority black districts and a federal appeals court docket clearing Alabama to make use of a earlier map that was dominated discriminatory in opposition to black voters. All that collectively, Congressman, how would you describe the temper at Friday’s gathering you had what was on folks’s minds?”
Clyburn stated, “We would like folks notice this isn’t simply South Carolina or Louisiana or Alabama. That is an try and undo the whole lot that the 1965 Voting Rights Act had performed. They began out with Shelby County v. Holder and removed Part 5 pre-clearance. And on the time, apparently, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court docket, Chief Justice Roberts, stated, nicely, there could also be some issues alongside the best way, however you continue to obtained a proper of motion in Part Two if anyone have been to do some mischief. Effectively, the delay determination got here eliminating Part Two. So we see a development right here that this Supreme Court docket is making an attempt to reinstate Plessy versus Ferguson. That was determined again within the Eighteen Nineties and which led to this super drought of African-American illustration within the Congress that lasted 29 years. It lasted 95 years right here in South Carolina.”
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