Cory Booker on Va. Redistricting: This Court Is ‘Profoundly Hypocritical,’ Stripping Political Power and Representation from African-Americans

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BOOKER: "So, first of all, this court is profoundly hypocritical. They said you can use race in immigration stops. So this is not about race, this is about stripping political power from millions of people. And obviously this decision would result — and they knew this — in stripping political power and representation from African-Americans. The Voting Rights Act was perhaps one of the most important acts in the history of our country in securing our democratic ideals: all are created equal, all are imbued with certain unalienable rights. And what they have done right now is sent us backwards in time, back to the 1870s and ‘80s, where the South and Southern legislators, through terrorism, intimidation, and worse were able to stop African-Americans from having representation in Congress. This is wrong. It’s as wrong as Plessy versus Ferguson. It’s as wrong as Korematsu. And I’m telling you right now, this will go down in history as one of the most wrongheaded decisions the Supreme Court has ever made, and effectively undercut our democracy."