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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.

Published on July 9, 2026 at 7:58 am CDT

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map fight and how it reveals a larger danger in American democracy: civil rights can be weakened without being formally repealed.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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