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Voting Rights, But Mainly for White People

October 18, 2025·51 min·4 clips

Janae Nelson explains why she broke a decade-long hiatus to argue the most important voting rights case of her career.

Dahlia Lithwick interviews Janae Nelson of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund about the Supreme Court case Louisiana v. Calais, which threatens to gut Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. They discuss the legal stakes, historical context of racial discrimination in redistricting, and the potential catastrophic impact on multiracial democracy if protections are removed.

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