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fight and how it reveals a larger danger in American democracy: civil rights can be weakened without being formally repealed.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