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The Grio: Concerns for Black communities mount amid secret recording of Supreme Court Justice Alito

A flag for the investigation of Justice Alito is waved at an event outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C.

People For President Svante Myrick is quoted on the impact of a recording of Justice Alito in this article from The Grio.

A leaked audio recording of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and his wife is sending shockwaves throughout the civil rights community and the halls of Congress, stoking fear that the court’s apparent political and ideological bias will bring more harm to Black and other marginalized communities. 

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“This court has gutted all of those, all the while pretending that they had no political views,” Svante Myrick, president of People For the American Way, told theGrio. “But really, they were just lying and covering up their deeply seated, bigoted, frankly, and overly zealous worldview.”

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Myrick said the Supreme Court’s rulings that have “hugely undermined LGBTQ rights” should concern those who care about the civil rights of Black Americans. Not only is there an “intersection between Black rights in America and the LGBTQ community,” but such rulings could lead to a return of “making it legal again to discriminate.”

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Read the full article at The Grio.