{"podcast":{"title":"Hawk Podcasts","slug":"hawk-podcasts-6751455","podcast_index_feed_id":6751455,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/pPVtxSNJ","website_url":"https://hawk-podcasts.simplecast.com","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/01123aa5-ddc5-46ef-8ec3-6344dfabaf79/4c578f53-f1f0-49db-8058-3a9b1910fcf6/3000x3000/hawk-podcasts-20audio-20template.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"Hawk","episode_count":197,"summary":"He's raw, unfiltered, unedited, authentic, vulnerable and sometimes annoying. His laugh is infectious, and he often engages in long periods of awkward silence. He will tell it like it is, and whether you’re on the left or the right he’s bound to make you uncomfortable at some point. But he will definitely make you think. A licensed, practicing trial attorney for the last 25 years, he brings his legal experience and knowledge to the news of the day and current events here at home to offer different perspectives and additional things to consider.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-17T08:17:32.470914+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hawk-podcasts-6751455"},"episode":{"title":"Destruction of the Voting Rights Act","slug":"destruction-of-the-voting-rights-act","published_at":"2026-05-01T16:34:10+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hawk-podcasts-6751455/destruction-of-the-voting-rights-act","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hawk-podcasts-6751455","url":"https://www.youtube.com/@hawkpodcasts","audio_url":"https://cdn.simplecast.com/media/audio/transcoded/2f3709c2-07df-488d-92c9-f3103d2db29d/73d4921a-b648-432b-9ad6-c18c04a39172/episodes/audio/group/1d5ecc71-9d0c-4e67-ada3-e48aa878fc6f/group-item/5104173f-dbc7-4955-8db7-3628f9832934/128_default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=pPVtxSNJ","summary":"The Supreme Court's decision in Louisiana v. Calais has effectively ended the Voting Rights Act as Americans have known it for over 60 years. What Clarence Thomas, John Roberts, and Sam Alito accomplished yesterday — stripping Section 2, the enforcement and remedies section of the Voting Rights Act — completes a decades-long project that began with the Shelby County decision in 2013. Hawk walks through Justice Elena Kagan's powerful dissent, which traces the history of the 15th Amendment, Bloody Sunday, the Edmund Pettus Bridge, and the civil rights workers murdered in Mississippi just trying to register black voters to vote. That history is now being undone by six people on the Supreme Court.","meta_description":"The Supreme Court's decision in Louisiana v. Calais has effectively ended the Voting Rights Act as Americans have known it for over 60 years. What Clarenc…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2235,"processing_state":"processed","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/hawk-podcasts-6751455/episodes/destruction-of-the-voting-rights-act/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/hawk-podcasts-6751455/destruction-of-the-voting-rights-act.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}