2026-05-14
19 分钟It's Thursday, May 14th.
I'm Jane Koston, and this is What A Day, the show that sees you,
a person who also listens to a lot of true crime podcasts.
You're very busy right now, and yet you've decided to take a break and catch up on the news.
I salute you.
On today's show, Vice President J.D. Vance announces steps to take more steps to prove steps
are being taken in the administration's anti-fraud initiative.
And the effort by Senate Democrats to halt the Iran war continues to go nowhere.
But let's start with voting and race.
We 've talked about how the Supreme Court's ruling in Louisiana v. Calais
dismantled a critical portion of the Voting Rights Act.
Since then, a bunch of states, largely in the South,
have moved to redraw their voting maps, and they 're eliminating majority black voting districts.
The Supreme Court seems to believe that states are creating districts based on politics,
not race, because it 's fine if lawmakers protect their party seats.
But to me and everyone else, including Republicans,
it seems pretty clear that 's not true when it comes to drawing districts.
Here's South Carolina Republican Representative Ralph Norman speaking on Newsmax.
Jim Clyburn, I like him personally, but he does not represent the rest of South Carolina, which is conservative.
His district is 40, close to 47 percent African-American and 41 percent with 6 percent makeup of Hispanics.