Black Americans face a new fight for racial representation after justices' Voting Rights Act ruling

Civil rights icon sees 'history repeating itself' with Supreme Court's 'seismic shock'

A civil rights icon said on Sunday that the Supreme Court's recent "seismic shock" echoes back to a time when the U.S. government used its power to prevent Black people from being able to vote. Press Robinson, 88, who was the first member of his family to vote and the first Black member of the Baton Rouge school board, told the Washington Post recently that the Supreme Court's decision in Louisiana v. Callais is likely to undo decades of progres…

MS NOW Legal Analyst Claims Black Voters Have ‘No Rights’ That the Supreme Court ‘Respects’

MS NOW legal analyst Paul Butler argued the U.S. Supreme Court clearly does not “respect” the rights of Black and Brown voters after ruling that race-based gerrymandering violates the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Butler ripped the 6-3 ruling during an interview on MS NOW’s The Weekend: Primetime on Saturday night. “In some ways, this is one of the worst Supreme Court decisions on race ever,” Butler said. “It’s actually worse than Plessy versus Fergus…

NY Times Panics: Supreme Court Voting Rights Ruling Banished 'Seatbelt of Our Democracy'

The New York Times reacted badly to the Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling in vote in Louisiana v. Callais that struck down racial gerrymandering to insure black voters have the best chance to elect black representatives to Congress.

Obama's Breathtaking Racial Redistricting Hypocrisy

Barack Obama is a real piece of work. Seriously, he has no shame. One week after the former president successfully gaslit a small majority of Virginians into voting for a redistricting initiative that got rid of the state’s two majority-minority congressional districts, he has the gall to condemn the Supreme Court’s ruling against the practice of redistricting along racial lines. He doesn’t really care about giving black voters better representa…

He spent 60 years building Black political power. He sees a wipeout coming.

Press Robinson, who years ago mounted a legal fight to become the first Black person elected to a Louisiana school board, was on the losing side of the Supreme Court case weakening the Voting Rights Act.

Civil rights groups in the South respond to Supreme Court's blow to voting rights

We gauge reaction in the Deep South to the Supreme Court ruling that could upend Black representation in Congress.