Civil Rights Leaders Prepare for Fight After Axing Voting Rights Act
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Civil Rights leaders prepare for fight after axing Voting Rights Act
By Barrington M. Salmon Contributing Writer (TriceEdneyWire.com) – Civil Rights leaders across the U.S. have reacted with alarm to the US Supreme Court ruling on April 28 that struck down Louisiana’s second majority Black congressional district, saying that the district relied too heavily on race; thereby gutting the Voting Rights Act. A mélange of outraged critics and political observers assert that this ruling not only renders the landmark Vot…
Civil Rights Groups Launch Southern Voting Rights Mobilization Following Supreme Court’s Callais Decision
Civil and voting rights organizations across the South are launching a wave of rallies, trainings and grassroots mobilizations in response to the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Louisiana v. Callais, which decimated one of the last meaningful protections against racially discriminatory voting maps. From Missouri and Mississippi, to Alabama and Louisiana, organizers are mobilizing around an escalating national assault on Black political repres…
"The country's most important civil rights law no longer exists in practice, and it will have an impact on American democracy for a very long time."Ari Berman, Mother Jones' correspondent, responded to the Supreme Court's recent 6-to-3 decision, which rejected the fundamental principles of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. https://www.democracynow.
How we fight against the Supreme Court’s and state legislatures’ full-on assault against our voting rights
The Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais invalidating Louisiana’s congressional map that gave Black voters fair representation is a devastating blow to civil rights and democracy. As Justice Kagan noted in her historic dissent, the Court’s ruling is the latest chapter in the majority’s now completed demolition of the Voting Rights Act. Callais opened the floodgates for Republican-ledContinue reading "How we fight against the Supreme…
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