The Supreme Court's Path To Killing The Voting Rights Act Is Paved With ********
As a young lawyer in the Reagan administration, Chief Justice John Roberts fought tooth and nail to oppose the 1982 reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act, which amended the law by requiring courts to look at the discriminatory results of a district map or election law and not just the discriminatory intent. He lost that battle as the reauthorization passed on a wide bipartisan vote.
But he won the war.
Forty-four years later, Roberts joined the majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito in Louisiana v. Callais that last week effectively overturned that 1982 reauthorization by requiring voting rights advocates to prove racially discriminatory intent when challenging a district map. The decision now makes it impossible to bring Voting Rights Act challenges to any district map drawn by a state legislature, and presages the greatest rollback of Black political representation since the dawn of Jim Crow.
Southern states are already moving fast to eliminate Black-held congressional seats previously protected by the Voting Rights Act. In the bare week since the decision was released, Florida and Tennessee enacted new maps eliminating Black-majority districts, while Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and South Carolina are taking steps to do the same.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/supreme-court-path-killing-voting-194159080.html
Roberts is a racist piece of shit.
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