How the Supreme Court demolished the Voting Rights Act

The US Supreme Court, Race & the Right to Vote

In perhaps its most insidious decision in nearly a century, the U.S. Supreme Court disemboweled Section 2 of the landmark Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965, the “crown jewel” of the U.S. civil rights movement. The VRA ended Jim Crow-era election procedures that precluded Black people from voting in the South through intimidation, literacy tests and  poll [...]

The Supreme Court just made a huge and costly mistake. And they will regret it.

As we all know now, Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is now officially history. Before I get into the point of this diary, I want to share what I think is…

How the Supreme Court demolished the Voting Rights Act

For two decades, the conservative Justices worked to eliminate a bulwark of the civil-rights era, Jeannie Suk Gersen writes.