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The Precision crew offered to put me through an abridged version of the member experience.

In 1870, the 15th Amendment prohibited the states from denying or abridging the right of citizens to vote based on “race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”

The question is whether creating majority-minority voting districts violates the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause and the 15th Amendment, which says that the right to vote can’t be “denied or abridged” on account of race.

ABC, Google and Meta have the right to limit speech on their own networks, but government absolutely can’t tell private companies to “abridge” speech.

“Maybe the Constitution should have said, ‘Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, except in one’s political or financial self-interest.’”

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