The Supreme Court Lands Its Fatal Blow on the Voting Rights Act
Mădălin Mihai
The Supreme Court achieved one of the principal goals of the conservative legal movement by destroying the last remaining pillar of Voting Rights Act of 1965. In Wednesday’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais , the court’s six-justice conservative majority effectively dismantled its protections against racial gerrymandering, and thus rendered the once-mighty law a hollow shell of itself. “Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was designed to enforce the Constitution—not collide with it,”
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