"What is missing is a recognition of what it actually took, the first time, to pass federal civil rights legislation in the 1960s. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was not the work of legal advocates alone." texasobserver.org/supreme-cour…
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The Response We Really Need to the Supreme Court’s Gutting of the VRA
The instinct of the response so far has been right, but incomplete. New maps. New litigation. State-level laws. Congressional pressure. All necessary. None sufficient.Robert Ceresa (The Texas Observer)
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in reply to Texas Observer • • •It is missing, because it's not actually relevant.
The Court wasn't asked whether passing the VRA was hard. It was asked to weigh in on what the VRA and Constitution say, what the law of the United States says, with regard to this case.
The difficulty of passing the VRA has no bearing on that question.