"The case reflects two major trends of the Roberts court: hostility to racial justice claims brought by minorities, and a willingness to invert civil rights law and the Reconstruction amendments alike to create interpretations in which these legal traditions function to entrench, rather than challenge, historical hierarchies of race and gender."

~ Moira Donegan

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theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The US supreme court appears ready to nullify the Voting Rights Act

Court has repeatedly expanded states’ leeway to make voting laws that would have previously been deemed discriminatory

^{Moira Donegan (The Guardian)}

"If the supreme court rules in favor of the 'non-African-American' voters and vacates what is left of the Voting Rights Act, as they are expected to, then a decision will probably come down sometime in June, just a few months before the November 2026 midterms. The resulting racial gerrymanders are expected to net Republicans 19 House seats."

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"A central grievance motivating today’s conservative legal movement — and the Republican Party more broadly — holds that any measure rectifying the country’s habitual discrimination against minorities actually discriminates against the in-group.

This is why 'black lives matter,' a call to recognize the disproportionate violence and death Black people suffer at the hands of the state, is met with 'all lives matter.'”

~ Kate Riga

#SupremeCourt #VotingRights
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talkingpointsmemo.com/news/sup…

In Supreme Court Land, Fixing Discrimination Against Black Voters Is The Real Racism

Feigning concern about supposed anti-white racism, the Supreme Court is poised to return the country to the 1960s.

^{Kate Riga (TPM - Talking Points Memo)}

"It’s why DEI has become the battle cry for rolling back the perpetuation and memorializing of civil rights advancements. It explains why Republicans’ fixation on protecting freedom of speech evaporates as soon as they bump up against speech they don’t like (say, a rally to protest the Trump administration’s authoritarian behavior)."

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"Civil liberties are a zero-sum game, this thinking goes, so any protection of minority groups must implicitly harm the majority group.

That same grievance animated the right-wing justices Wednesday, as they heard a case that could decimate Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA)....

The right to vote in the United States has never been secure for minority groups."

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"Even now, the Illinois governor warns that President Trump is deploying the military for the express purpose of intimidating voters out of exercising the sacred franchise in the midterm elections. The Supreme Court is doing its own version of that by threatening one of the last protections of our multicultural democracy."

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"The outcome in this case was decided long before the lawyers arrived at the courthouse. The six Republican justices are going to declare the Voting Rights Act inert and allow the dilution of Black voting rights through racist gerrymandering. Oral arguments were largely an exercise of the Republicans justifying their racist positions."

~ Elie Mystal

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thenation.com/article/politics…

The Supreme Court Left No Doubt: It Will Gut the Voting Rights Act | The Nation

The ruling, when it comes, will be disastrous for Black voters and for Democrats.

^{The Nation}

“'The law' is of no more use here. The Republican Supreme Court is about to overturn a Republican ruling the Republicans made only two years ago. That alone should tell you that the law, as it is practiced by the Supreme Court, is utterly useless. The Republican justices have the power to do whatever they want. And what they want, today, is to flip Congress in favor of Republicans."

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