Comedy Central’s Monday host of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart, welcomed lawyer and professor Sherrilyn Ifill to the program to react to the Supreme Court’s latest ruling regarding the Voting Rights Act. However, Stewart also invited Ifill to give a larger history lesson, which led him to laugh at the Court’s 2013 ruling that got rid of the need for DOJ preclearance for southern states because racism in 2026 is not the same as it was in 1965.
Stewart began by asserting, “What are the metrics for how we decided things have changed? Because I would assume that those metrics are the result of Section Five.”
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