But the news is too staggering to hide for long: The Republican-appointed justices have decided it is time to fully destroy the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Sixty years ago, the Voting Rights Act ended the Jim Crow regime and transformed the country, finally, into a multiracial democracy—albeit an imperfect one.
The court’s eventual decision will impact how political maps are drawn, and will certainly hasten the precipitous decline of American democracy.
Congress passed the Voting Rights Act to enforce the vision of equality enacted that animated the 14th and 15th Amendments.
Trump may be behind this plan, but it was the Supreme Court that made such brazen partisan gerrymandering possible.
Perhaps this sea change will come next June, when the court generally releases its biggest decisions at the end of the term.
But the movement to destroy the Voting Rights Act is closely tied to the MAGA movement and the Republican Party it has taken over. »
