Battle to Dump Jim Crow-Era Voting Rules

Mississippi hasn’t elected a black official statewide in more than 130 years. Rick Pildes, a professor at NYU Law School, discusses a lawsuit targeting Mississippi’s 1890 constitution as expressly crafted to stop African Americans from getting elected. He speaks to Bloomberg’s June Grasso.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Host June Grasso speaks with prominent attorneys and legal scholars, analyzing major legal issues and cases in the news. The show examines all aspects of the legal profession, from intellectual property to criminal law, from bankruptcy to securities law, drawing on the deep research tools of BloombergLaw.com.