“Today’s decision strikes a blow at the fragile infrastructure of our democracy. It casts aside the precious and noble actions undertaken by countless generations of activists, lawyers, and legislators, who worked to bring this country closer to becoming a true multi-racial democracy.”
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SCOTUS Drops The Other Shoe on the Voting Rights Act
The Supreme Court's Decision in Louisiana v. Callais Completes the Decimation of the Voting Rights ActSherrilyn Ifill (Sherrilyn’s Newsletter)
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in reply to Bohemian Peasant • • •No, it's the exact opposite.
The ruling is clear that this decision reinforces democracy, emphasizing the limits that politicians have to put their fingers on the scales against the democratic processes.
This piece gets it exactly backwards.