Today on the Matt Walsh Show, we ll talk about the absolutely massive Supreme Court case that might make it impossible for Democrats to ever win a majority in the House of Representatives ever again. Also, the thugs who attacked Big Balls will not serve any time in jail. The View complains that Republicans won t come on the show. Well, I know one Republican who would love to come on. And NBC News shuts down its gay and black news divisions. Why do they even have divisions in the first place? What do those divisions do?
00:04:15.060Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act against the backdrop of a world that was generally
00:04:21.340not accessible to people with disabilities. And so it was discriminatory, in effect, because these folks
00:04:29.080were not able to access these buildings. And it didn't matter whether the person who built the
00:04:36.240building or the person who owned the building intended for them to be exclusionary. That's
00:04:42.900irrelevant. Congress said the facilities have to be made equally open to people with disabilities,
00:04:48.960if readily possible. I guess I don't understand why that's not what's happening here. The idea
00:04:56.420in Section 2 is that we are responding to current-day manifestations of past and present decisions
00:05:05.580that disadvantage minorities and make it so that they don't have equal access to the voting
00:05:11.940system, right? They're disabled. In fact, we use the word disabled in Milligan. We say that's a way
00:05:19.600in which you see that these processes are not equally open.
00:05:24.000They don't have access to the voting system, Kentonji Brown-Jackson says, referring to Black people.
00:05:31.360They're disabled. Now, in a moment, we'll get into the context here and the precise legal argument that she is
00:05:39.320attempting to make. But if I'm an editor at Politico, and I'm not, thank God, this would definitely be a
00:05:47.940cancel-worthy line. You will not find any imaginary white supremacist, even in the fevered imagination
00:05:53.760of Merrick Garland, who would come up with content like this. But here we are. We're being told that
00:06:00.560Black people are basically disabled. Now, of course, in this case, because Kentonji Brown-Jackson was
00:06:07.200allegedly making a legal argument in a case before the Supreme Court, we're supposed to look the other
00:06:12.500way and pretend that she was making an intelligent point. The problem, though, for Democrats is that,
00:06:19.400no, Kentonji Brown-Jackson was not making an intelligent point. And as a result, it looks like
00:06:25.100they're going to lose this particular case. The majority of the justices on the Supreme Court
00:06:30.260made that clear during these oral arguments. And that's big news, because this is not just any
00:06:38.220random case. This is a big one. If Democrats lose this case, as it appears they probably will,
00:06:46.640then the result will be totally catastrophic for the Democrat Party. We're talking about a disaster
00:06:53.040unlike anything in political history in this country. I mean, it's not an exaggeration to say
00:07:00.220that this is easily one of the most important Supreme Court cases of all time. It's a case that will
00:07:05.480finally destroy once and for all a fraudulent system that Democrats have relied on for decades
00:07:11.980to win dozens of seats in Congress. They've been rigging the game for generations. They've been
00:07:18.960stealing elections in plain sight. And now it's probably coming to an end. As a party, Democrats
00:07:26.120could be absolutely decimated by what's about to happen, which, of course, is great news.
00:07:32.160So let's back up and talk at some length about the case that Ketanji Brown Jackson was dealing with
00:07:37.720when she made that comment. Here's how they're describing the case on MSNBC to give you some
00:07:43.900background and some sense of how they're panicking on the left for good reason. Watch.
00:07:50.800Tell me what was argued in front of the Supreme Court today and where it appears the justices were
00:07:57.540likely to fall. So lawyers argued that Louisiana violated the Constitution when it drew a second
00:08:06.360majority black district in order to comply with the Voting Rights Act. For decades, the Supreme Court
00:08:12.880has interpreted the Voting Rights Act to require these opportunity districts that have large black
00:08:19.020and brown populations so that these communities can elect the representatives of their choice.
00:08:23.980But today, lawyers argued that that is unconstitutional, that taking race into account
00:08:29.460to draw districts, even if it is designed to boost representation for minorities, even if it is
00:08:35.500designed to remedy past discrimination against minorities, that that violates the Equal Protection
00:08:41.060Clause by considering race and that the Constitution must be colorblind. And it sounded like a majority of
00:08:47.540the justices are leaning toward embracing some form of that argument, which would essentially dismantle the
00:08:53.340Voting Rights Act as we know it today. How do you know that that's the way that they were leaning?
00:08:58.380All six of the Republican appointed justices indicated that they think that the Voting Rights Act has
00:09:03.520essentially outlived its usefulness. If this does happen, if it is overturned, if your assessment of where they're
00:09:09.520leaning is correct, let us show what could be impacted. This is a few maps showing VRA protected congressional
00:09:19.500districts that could be affected. There's one in Louisiana, there is another in Alabama, and there is another in Texas. And those are the number of specific districts that could change. You see Florida in there as well and a few other states.
00:09:34.620So they're upset because the Voting Rights Act was one of the most significant pieces of civil rights era legislation. And when I say significant, I mean that it's given the Democrat Party an extraordinary amount of unearned political power for many decades. And now based on oral arguments yesterday, the Supreme Court, it's likely to be struck down. Now, on the surface, the Voting Rights Act was a reasonable sounding law.
00:10:00.340Because it made it illegal to deny any American their right to vote or discriminate against voters on account of their skin color. Most people would agree with that basic idea. The point at the time was to ensure that there wouldn't be a conspiracy to gerrymander congressional districts in such a way as to dilute the black vote.
00:10:20.820For example, it would be illegal under the Voting Rights Act for a state government to intentionally draw its congressional district maps so that in every district, black people made up a very tiny percentage of the population.
00:10:33.260And this could be a little confusing. So let's break this down. Let's say that a town is holding an election for dog catcher. And the winner of the election is the candidate who wins a majority of the town's five districts.
00:10:46.160So let's say the town has 150 white people and 75 black people. Now, under the Voting Rights Act, it would be illegal for the town's leadership to go out of its way to draw the district map so that all of the 75 black people are located in one strangely shaped district while the 150 white people occupy the other four districts.
00:11:05.480That would be a clear effort to dilute the vote along racial lines and minimize the black vote so they don't have any impact on the outcome of the election.
00:11:16.160And so all that seems reasonable enough. The problem is that, like every other piece of civil rights legislation, the scope of the Voting Rights Act has expanded dramatically over the years.
00:11:27.340And this has happened through amendments and through court cases. And now, as a result of all these changes,
00:11:33.740is any state that doesn't have enough majority black districts is deemed to be in violation of the law under the theory of disparate impact.
00:11:43.480In other words, even if there was no intentional discrimination in drawing the congressional districts, then courts will still conclude that the law has been violated if not enough districts are majority black.
00:11:54.940So, to go back to the dog catcher example, let's say that each of the five districts in the town has 15 black people and 30 white people.
00:12:09.180Now, in other words, there are no majority black districts.
00:12:12.940The black people and white people are evenly distributed.
00:12:14.940And let's say that happened by accident.
00:12:18.200The town split the districts based on geography, and that's how the demographics shook out.
00:12:25.960Now, in this case, without a doubt, a court would rule that the arrangement is illegal, even if there is a completely reasonable justification for the map.
00:12:37.160There's no racial race has not been taken into account.
00:12:40.720But the mere fact that black people don't have a majority district by itself is supposedly evidence of discrimination, given that the town has a lot of black people overall.
00:12:51.480And then, once courts decide that a state doesn't have enough majority black districts, courts will order states to redraw their electoral maps so that more majority black districts would be created.
00:13:02.280So, we went from a law that's supposed to prevent states from coming up with districts to account for race.
00:13:13.200Now, the law is used to require states to do exactly that thing.
00:13:19.780So, a couple of years ago, that's exactly what happened to the state of Louisiana.
00:13:23.580In 2022, the state drew a congressional map that had six districts, and only one of those districts was majority black.
00:13:31.000There was no evidence of intentional discrimination by the state of Louisiana, or anything like that.
00:13:37.920In fact, Louisiana made a strong argument that they had drawn the maps to maximize the political advantages for the Republican Party, not to exclude any racial group.
00:13:46.000But under the Voting Rights Act, evidence of intentional discrimination isn't needed.
00:13:51.620The mere fact that there was only one majority black district, according to the courts, was a problem.
00:13:56.380So, you're probably beginning to see the issue here.
00:13:59.740Black people, as a demographic group, overwhelmingly vote Democrat.
00:14:03.660And it's rational, from a political perspective, for Republicans to draw districts to dilute the strength of Democrat-aligned voters.
00:15:34.500If you're listening to the audio podcast, the new district stretches across the entire length of the state from northwest to southeast.
00:15:44.240It cuts across urban areas, rural areas, swampland, and so on.
00:15:49.480It looks like a stretch mark across the entire state.
00:15:52.240It looks like the state of Louisiana just lost a bunch of weight on Ozempic or something.
00:15:56.440It's extremely obvious that the people living in this district have nothing in common with each other except their skin color.
00:16:02.900In other words, to remedy non-existent racism, the state of Louisiana was ordered by a federal court to draw a map that excludes as many white people as possible.
00:16:12.060They were ordered to be racist, to fight racism, and that's what the Voting Rights Act is all about, certainly at least what it's become.
00:16:24.880After Louisiana was forced by the courts to draw this district, to their great credit, several citizens in the state filed a lawsuit over it, and now that lawsuit is before the Supreme Court.
00:16:34.380And the question is, can states be forced to draw districts like that one to explicitly exclude as many white people as possible if the states don't have enough majority black districts?
00:16:49.060In other words, is it acceptable under our Constitution to openly and flagrantly discriminate against white voters in order to remedy alleged past discrimination?
00:16:57.760Now, right now, it seems like the Supreme Court is going to answer this question correctly, which is with a resounding no, of course not.
00:17:07.240And if that's ultimately the court's decision, Democrats will lose nearly two dozen seats in Congress immediately.
00:17:14.040They'd have a very difficult time obtaining a majority in the House of Representatives ever again.
00:17:19.360And that's because, as you saw earlier, Louisiana isn't the only state that has artificial majority black districts like this.
00:17:25.320Several other states in the South do as well.
00:17:28.780Here's CNN assessing the potential damage to the Democrats.
00:17:33.340Don't forget, the Supreme Court is considering what could really be the end of the Voting Rights Act, which would protect minority groups.
00:17:41.660So you don't have a state that's half black, for example, that elects only one congressional member and everybody else goes to the Republicans that would represent that population in some way.
00:17:52.200So if that is gutted, Democrats could lose 19 seats.
00:17:59.980Now, to put this number in context, Democrats currently have 213 members in the House.
00:18:04.840That's six fewer members than Republicans.
00:18:07.240In the Voting Rights Act, if the Voting Rights Act is ruled unconstitutional, then Democrats will potentially lose 19 seats, more than three times the current differential in the House.
00:18:16.080That's how important this civil rights era law has been for Democrats' political prospects as a party.
00:18:24.600They've been completely dependent on this corrupt and obviously immoral law.
00:21:42.360That's right, and in the state of Louisiana, that analysis was conducted in the Nairn case.
00:21:47.880And it was clear that regardless of party, white Democrats were not voting for black candidates, whether they were Democrats or not.
00:21:57.760And we know that there is such a significant chasm between how black and white voters vote in Louisiana that there's no question that even if there is some correlation between race and party,
00:22:10.500that race is the driving factor, her argument is that, quote, white Democrats were not voting for black candidates, whether they were Democrats or not.
00:22:21.520And therefore, we need to have more majority black districts.
00:22:24.840Now, think about what they're saying here.
00:22:27.300In effect, the NAACP is making the argument that unless black people get elected, then our democracy isn't working and the Constitution is being violated.
00:22:39.140Black people now have a constitutional right to get a lot of votes, apparently, as well, instead of, like, earning the votes.
00:22:50.680Never mind the fact that white people vote for black candidates all the time.
00:22:56.800Barack Obama was the president for eight years.
00:23:00.160There are plenty of black politicians who hold elected office in the GOP.
00:23:05.720Never mind the fact that with this argument, the NAACP is basically admitting that they see black people as a monolithic voting bloc that always supports Democrats.
00:23:14.740None of their arguments make any sense under their own framework.
00:23:18.900And the Supreme Court recognizes that.
00:23:21.720What we're seeing here pretty clearly is that Democrats are flailing around, desperately trying to preserve those 19 stolen seats in the House.
00:23:29.740They're throwing every imaginable argument at the wall, and they're being, as usual, as dishonest as they possibly can be.
00:23:35.680But it wasn't that long ago, you know, back during the Obama years, when Democrats were more transparent about their goals as they related to the Voting Rights Act.
00:23:42.640Under the Obama administration, the Obama DOJ rejected a North Carolina town's effort to switch to nonpartisan voting, saying the change was, quote, likely to reduce the ability of blacks to elect candidates of choice.
00:23:55.820In other words, according to the Obama DOJ, black people just vote for Democrats automatically, out of habit.
00:24:05.980So if the candidate was nonpartisan, then the argument was that Democrats, you know, that wouldn't be able to figure out who to vote for.
00:24:14.920And therefore, in order to comply with the Voting Rights Act, states have to elect more Democrats.
00:24:21.520That was the official position of the Obama DOJ.
00:32:38.020And when we're talking about the problems in the criminal justice system, you cannot avoid talking about it.
00:32:42.320If you want to actually say something true and useful, then you can't avoid it.
00:32:47.260You know, one of the primary reasons why we have what is often called a soft-on-crime system is because of the belief, the doctrine, that black offenders are automatically victims because they're black.
00:37:33.540But you aren't going to lose weight unless you do break a sweat.
00:37:38.920The sweating is a necessary step towards the end goal, which is to lose weight.
00:37:43.700And again, I'm making the argument on the judge's term here.
00:37:46.320I happen to think that punishment should be the goal or one of the goals of the justice system.
00:37:50.180But even accepting her logic, that would mean that rehabilitation is the goal, which means that, in that case, the punishment is not the goal, but it is still the way to the goal.
00:38:02.860Okay, it's the breaking a sweat part of it.
00:38:06.120You cannot rehabilitate a criminal without punishment any more than you can have an effective workout without breaking a sweat.
00:38:42.000And it's got nothing to do with how much community service they do.
00:38:45.380So that's why all this stuff about, oh, and we, as we've talked about the last few weeks, good behavior, community service, you know, being well behaved.
00:40:20.440Well, I can tell you right now, a violent criminal who assaults a random person has definitely not repented if they haven't even spent a day in prison.
00:50:57.040I think it's going to be really productive.
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00:53:05.180Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
00:53:06.420But we began the show by talking about how some of the worst and most destructive relics of the civil rights era are now finally being eliminated.
00:53:16.040So to the end of the show, to end the show on yet another happy note for the daily cancellation, we have some similar news.
00:53:22.940Some of the worst and most destructive relics of the BLM era are now also meeting that fate.
00:53:27.560And here's the wrap with the report, quote, NBC News eliminated its teams dedicated to covering issues affecting Black, Asian American, Latino, and LGBTQ plus groups as part of its layoffs of about 150 staffers on Wednesday.
00:53:41.760According to two sources familiar with the matter, a significant culling as the Peacock Network separates from its sister network, MSNBC, the cuts mean that the verticals NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino, and NBC Out will no longer have dedicated teams bolstering their coverage.
00:53:59.040The total reductions which affected NBC News' entire news operation make up about 7% of NBC News' newsroom of about 2,000 staffers.
00:54:06.040Yes, although you may not have realized that NBC had entire news divisions with names like NBC BLK, as in NBC for Black People and Black Stories.
00:54:18.500They also had a whole division for gay people called NBC Out, in addition to NBC Latino, NBC Asian.
00:54:24.460They had segregated news divisions for different identities, essentially.
00:54:27.540Strangely enough, there was no NBC Indian or NBC Midget or there wasn't even an NBC Furry, which I thought was interesting.
00:54:35.860So they didn't cover every single demographic group in the country with all these different news divisions.
00:54:41.160But to be fair, they made a good faith effort.
00:54:43.460And now that effort is being dismantled piece by piece.
00:54:47.020But as we all know, great ideas like great minds are often only appreciated when they're gone.
00:54:52.920And therefore, to be sure that I wasn't missing anything here, I thought it'd be a good idea to take a look back at the extraordinary journalism produced by some of these highly specialized NBC News divisions.
00:55:01.800In particular, I took a close look at the work product of NBC BLK and NBC Out over the years, just to get a sense of what we'll be missing going forward.
00:55:11.360And to set the stage, and bear with me here, I'm going to show you this dash cam footage from a traffic stop in Camden County, Georgia, from back in October of 2023.
00:55:19.660And I promise it's highly relevant. Watch.
00:55:24.340Put your hands behind your back because you're getting tased.
00:57:38.800So Leonard Cure died Monday morning during an altercation with a Camden County Sheriff's deputy on Interstate 95 near the Georgia-Florida border.
00:57:45.740The death came three years after he served 16 years in prison for an armed robbery conviction he was exonerated of.
00:57:51.080The 53-year-old had been visiting his mother in Port St. Lucie Friday and was returning home in Metro Atlanta.
00:57:58.940Mary Cure recalled the last conversation she had with her son early Monday morning before they parted ways.
00:59:19.020eventually the article gets around to saying that a fight ensued between Cure and the officer without making it clear that the cure was clearly the instigator of the fight.
00:59:26.940it's not hard to see what's going on here.
00:59:28.500NBC black existed for one reason to stoke racial resentment and open racial warfare in this country.
00:59:33.800It was explicit propaganda of the worst imaginable kind.
00:59:37.160And they deliberately ran cover for violent black felons,
00:59:40.520even when their crimes were caught on camera in order to spread the false narrative that innocent black people were being hunted by the police.
00:59:58.100what happens in virtually all of these cases,
01:00:00.340which is like not talked about enough,
01:00:01.780but when somebody is supposedly exonerated decades after the fact,
01:00:07.160what almost always happens is that a left-wing court applies unrealistic standards of evidence to an ancient case long after the witnesses are gone.
01:01:39.000it's been 25 years since Matthew Shepard,
01:01:40.880a gay 21 year old university of Wyoming student died six days after he was savagely beaten by two young men and tied to a remote fence to meet his fate.
01:01:48.900His death has been memorialized as an egregious hate crime that helped fuel the LGBTQ rights movement over the ensuing years.
01:01:54.980Now notice the sleight of hand in that paragraph.
01:02:01.520They don't say that Matthew Shepard was actually killed in a hate crime because they know he wasn't.
01:02:06.240He was killed as part of a meth deal gone bad.
01:02:08.680And one of his killers was a former gay lover.
01:02:10.780That's been widely reported at this point.
01:02:12.940NBC out knows that everybody knows that.
01:02:14.760So instead of directly lying, NBC out writes that Shepard's death has, quote,
01:02:19.660been memorialized as an egregious hate crime.
01:02:23.300In other words, they're saying, you know, basically people said it was a hate crime.
01:02:27.800And even though we know that's wrong, we're going to repeat the lie without providing any context.
01:02:31.320Again, this is a news division at a news network.
01:02:36.140And it clearly exists to spread hoaxes and propaganda.
01:02:39.060Now, predictably, left-wing media outlets are crying about these layoffs, saying it's a sign that white supremacy is on the rise or whatever.
01:02:46.960Now, I could give dozens more examples, of course, of the propaganda produced by these NBC divisions,
01:02:51.320like the time an NBC black pundit demanded that the FCC punish anyone who misgendered, meaning correctly gendered, so-called trans individuals.
01:02:59.500Or I could talk about the time NBC out pushed a Catholic school to hire a lesbian lacrosse coach.
01:03:04.480Instead of going through all that, I'll just say that we need many, many more layoffs like this.
01:03:11.720And it looks like we're going to get them.