The 1965 Voting Rights Act enfranchised millions of black voters in the Jim Crow South.
And to this day, polling shows it is one of the country's most popular laws.
Americans tend to like democracy.
But a challenge out of Louisiana has the Supreme Court's nine justices considering today whether to gut the VRA.
And you know what?
They might.
The Supreme Court has seen that there just isn't that much backlash to its decisions,
at least not the kind of backlash that threatens the court's power.
You know, the Supreme Court has now overturned the right to abortion.
It has overturned affirmative action.
It has overturned a number of environmental policies and other pretty popular laws.
And, you know, it still stands.
That's ahead on Today Explained.
No matter how you feel about AI, it's starting to feel like AI is harder and harder to avoid.
Even when you want to just get on your Peloton and go for a run.
There's AI coming for you.
This week on The Vergecast,
we're talking about all of the different ways that AI is encroaching into our lives,
from our smart homes, to our exercise equipment,
to all of the ways that chatGPT wants to run every single part of your life.