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This Matters with Bill Britt

Rights without remedies

Civil rights weaken when courts preserve the promise of equality while making the remedies harder and harder to enforce.

A right without a remedy is not really a right.

It is a promise on paper, but not a protection in practice.

In this week’s “This Matters,” Bill Britt examines Alabama’s congressional map fight and how it reveals a larger danger in American democracy: civil rights can be weakened without being formally repealed.

Because when courts narrow the tools that enforce equality, the words may remain standing while the protection disappears.

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