Stress Test: SCOTUS Doesn't Want You To Know It Killed the Voting Rights Act
Description: The Roberts Supreme Court doesn't want you to know it killed the Voting Rights Act. But it did.
National voting rights correspondent Ari Berman joins us this week on Stress Test, our new video podcast, to pull apart the biggest stress test facing the midterms: whether the vote will proceed smoothly, or whether Trump will meddle even more.
After all, Trump and his gang are already claiming the election will be "rigged," pushing false voter-fraud claims, trying to disrupt mail voting, and demanding voter-roll data that could be used to challenge or purge voters.
Then there are the redistricting wars that have shaped so much of 2026, and the Supreme Court's role in diluting Black political power. At last month's Republican midterm convention, Trump even went so far as to lead the crowd in a performatively jokey pledge to "cheat like hell."
New episodes of Stress Test drop every Wednesday and Friday. Subscribe at youtube.com/motherjones. Close description
National voting rights correspondent Ari Berman joins us this week on Stress Test, our new video podcast, to pull apart the biggest stress test facing the midterms: whether the vote will proceed smoothly, or whether Trump will meddle even more.
After all, Trump and his gang are already claiming the election will be "rigged," pushing false voter-fraud claims, trying to disrupt mail voting, and demanding voter-roll data that could be used to challenge or purge voters.
Then there are the redistricting wars that have shaped so much of 2026, and the Supreme Court's role in diluting Black political power. At last month's Republican midterm convention, Trump even went so far as to lead the crowd in a performatively jokey pledge to "cheat like hell."
New episodes of Stress Test drop every Wednesday and Friday. Subscribe at youtube.com/motherjones. Close description