
Democratic strategist Donna Brazile said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that the Supreme Court striking down a voting map in Louisiana was “bringing us back to Jim Crow.”
Partial transcript as follows:
MARTHA RADDATZ: And, Donna, I want your reaction to this. Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters that states with, quote, “unconstitutional maps should look at redistricting before the midterms. What’s your reaction to all of that?
BRAZILE: Well, first of all, it’s a betrayal. It’s a betrayal of Black citizens who believed after 1965 that they could get a seat at the table, they could have fair representation. It’s a betrayal of the Constitution, I believe — this notion that you can have partisan gerrymandering, but not racial gerrymandering. I live in a state that is one-third Black, one-third Black. I watched my parents. I watched my uncles and uncles come from war. I was a girl, a little kid who
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