❝ What the Voting Rights Act produced – not just officeholders but the constituency-mapping that allowed Black political coalitions to cohere – is precisely what Republicans are now undoing.

They have a roadmap. In 1913, Woodrow Wilson’s administration resegregated the federal civil service that Reconstruction had pried open. They did it by executive action and administrative memo. ❞

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

#JimCrow #AmericanFascism #VotingRights #Elections2026 #USpol

The Republican project isn’t to win in November. It’s to make November cease to matter

New electoral maps are erasing Black representations. The effort takes its cues from American history

^{Jamil Smith (The Guardian)}

Advocacy groups are key players because they bring most of the lawsuits filed under the provision of the #VotingRightsAct known as #Section2.

But in a #NorthDakota case brought by 2 #NativeAmerican tribes, the 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that only the #FederalGovernment can sue to enforce the #law.

The decision conflicted with decades of case law. #SCOTUS blocked it in July, allowing the tribes’ preferred maps to temporarily stay in place.

#VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights

The appeals court’s finding has nevertheless been cited elsewhere, with #Mississippi making a similar argument in another appeal over its state legislative map. #SCOTUS also sent that case back for reconsideration on Monday.

Justice #KetanjiBrownJackson dissented from the decision, writing that both rulings should have been reversed.

#law #VotingRights #VRA #CivilRights #RepresentationMatters

The conservative majority, meanwhile, already diluted enforcement power with an April decision that struck down a majority #Black congressional district in #Louisiana & made future cases much harder to win.

In that case, #SCOTUS’ conservative majority ruled a map relied too heavily on race with a district aimed at giving Black voters a chance to elect a candidate of their choice. The decision effectively limited #VotingRights claims to maps that are intentionally designed to discriminate.

#law

#SCOTUS sends closely watched #NativeAmerican #VotingRights decision back to lower court

SCOTUS acted in a #VotingRightsAct case brought by Native American tribes on Monday, saying a closely watched ruling needs to be reconsidered after the high court weakened the #CivilRights era #law.

The justices ordered lower courts to take another look at the decision that went against the tribes & undercut a key enforcement mechanism: lawsuits from voters & advocacy groups.

apnews.com/article/voting-righ…

FYI CALIFORNIA VOTERS: Today, Monday, May 18 is the last day to register to vote for the June 2, California primary. If you have not registered, please do so today!!!!

#california #registertovote #votingrights #vote

Protest is brewing again in Selma. In the wake of Callais, and the overt gerrymandering and dilution of the Black vote that the Supreme Court now says is legal, protestors marched today. (credit: Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse)

joycevance.substack.com/p/selm…

#JimCrow #Selma #VotingRights #USPOL

RE: mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYo…

"Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at today's rally in Alabama: “I am here because our destinies are tied. I am here because this county was built on solidarity, and all of us here are inheritors of the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement and that also required the freedom and the bravery of the Freedom Riders who came down to help, support and assist that. So we stand on that legacy and we are here to stand with you. You are not alone.”
copy: @renewedresistance #politics #VotingRights

BLACK PEOPLE IN LOUISIANA! TODAY IS THE LAST DAY TO VOTE! PLEASE TURN OUT IN RECORD NUMBERS AT THE POLLS!!

Vote NO on all five constitutional amendments!

ALL ROADS LEAD TO THE SOUTH TODAY! Montgomery, Alabama

youtube.com/watch?v=JpuU4niNTh…

Thank you brother Roland Martin, for covering this national day of action for VOTING RIGHTS!

#louisiana #blackpeople #BlackMastodon #votingrights #vote

Mass mobilizations for Black voters' rights are planned for this weekend in Selma and Montgomery #Alabama. They are part of a national day of action for voting rights.

al.com/news/birmingham/2026/05…

#scotus #votingRights #racism

#SCOTUS set the stage for #Alabama to get rid of 1 of 2 largely #Black congressional districts before this year’s #midterms, creating an opening for #Republicans to gain an additional #US #House seat in a closely divided chamber.

The decision follows a SCOTUS ruling that struck down a majority-Black US House district in #Louisiana as an “unconstitutional” #RacialGerrymander, significantly weakening the federal #VotingRights Act.

#law #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt
apnews.com/article/alabama-red…

National Day of Action #May16 to protect #VotingRights:
blackpowerwarroom.com/dayofact…

#USpol

Meanwhile, #Republican lawmakers in #Louisiana & #SouthCarolina also presented congressional #redistricting plans that faced staunch opposition from #CivilRights activists & #Democrats.

#Republicans in Southern states have been moving quickly to try to capitalize on a recent #SCOTUS ruling in a Louisiana case that significantly weakened #VotingRights Act protections for minorities.

#law #ElectionLaw #midterms #vote

"If you are taking seats from black people, which we are entitled to by the constitution of this country, then you are a thief." 💯

Baton Rouge civil rights activist Gary Chambers standing up to the corrupt GOP lawmakers who want to eliminate Louisiana’s majority Black districts.

If voting was useless they would not be trying to redistrict to supress the vote!

#USPol #Louisiana #Republicans #Elections #VotingRights #Resist

What’s happening in Tennessee is the epitome of systemic racism and the fall of democracy in America.

“The map aims to give the GOP a clean sweep of the state’s nine congressional districts by fracturing Black-majority Memphis between three districts.”

tennesseelookout.com/2026/05/0…

politico.com/news/2026/05/07/t…

#Tennessee #JustinPearson #VotingRights #VRA #SystemicRacism #Fascism

#Alabama lawmakers approved a plan Friday for new #US #House #primaries if courts allow the state to use different congressional districts in this year’s elections, sending the #legislation to #Republican Gov. Kay Ivey.

The move came the same day that the #Virginia Supreme Court dealt a major setback to #Democrats by overturning a #redistricting plan that could have helped Democrats win as many as 4 additional House seats.

#law #ElectionLaw #midterms #VotingRights
apnews.com/article/alabama-red…

The administration calls it a "little detour." One hundred seventy-four civilians dead. Twenty-five billion dollars. Zero congressional votes. When the past RNC chair calls it war crimes, you're not reading partisan screed—you're reading a smoke alarm. The land is keeping score. It always has.

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#Politics #War #Accountability #QueerHistory #ClimateJustice #Resistance #VotingRights #ClimateScience #SCOTUS #Democracy #TransRights #Trans #Queer #LGBTQIA+

What Survives the Morning: The Burning, Laughing, Rotting Corpse

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^{Wendy Weber (Wendy The Druid)}

#Tennessee #Republicans on Wednesday proposed a congressional map aimed at diluting the state’s lone majority #Black district, a swift response to last week’s #SCOTUS ruling that weakened a landmark #VotingRights #law.

The new map slices #Memphis, a majority-Black city, & #ShelbyCounty into 3 districts & likely will give Republicans the ability to flip Tennessee’s lone remaining Democratic seat.

#ElectionLaw #redistricting #gerrymandering #RacialGerrymandering #RepresentationMatters #USpol

#Democratic lawmakers, whose opposition means little under a #Republican supermajority in the state’s General Assembly, & #Black leaders across #Tennessee have compared the effort to carve up the Ninth Congressional District to #JimCrow era voter suppression tactics. They have accused conservatives of a power grab that undermines Black voters in #Memphis, who have long favored #Democrats.

#law #ElectionLaw #SCOTUS #VotingRights #redistricting #RacialGerrymandering #RepresentationMatters

#Republicans Unveil Map Carving Up #Tennessee’s Majority #Black #House District

The General Assembly is expected to quickly approve the map, which slices up Memphis, a majority-Black city that makes up most of the state’s lone #Democratic district.

#law #ElectionLaw #SCOTUS #VotingRights #redistricting #gerrymandering #RacialGerrymandering #RepresentationMatters #TNpol #USpol
nytimes.com/2026/05/06/us/gop-…

"John Roberts life’s work of repealing the 20th century is essentially complete. What is clear about him is that he is determined to use the Supreme Court to systematically dismantle every outrage against white supremacy and oligarchy that were passed by 20th century congresses and upheld by 20th century Supreme Court majorities:"

~ Joy-Ann Reid

#SupremeCourt #JohnRoberts #VotingRights #Callais #GildedAge #JimCrow #corruption
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A Sunday Reid, updated: our corrupt, neoconfederate Supreme Court court is solidifying 'John Crow'

Chief Justice Roberts is repealing the 20th century to protect the corruption of Donald Trump, the Republican Party, and his own conservative majority

^{Joy-Ann Reid (Welcome to Joy's House!)}

"The Court’s abuses of power now extend to any laws that would limit their goal of remaking the country by corrupt means.

So it all comes back to Court reform. The toxins and bacteria of the Court’s corruption spread into every tissue of American life."

#SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #Republicans #Callais
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Gene Weingarten notes that historians consider the Taney court the worst Supreme Court in US history. But:

"Now consider the John Roberts court. It is politically fractured. It has dispensed hell from day one, almost unfailingly enforcing a right-wing activist political agenda. It is absurdly partisan and morally corrupt."

#SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #Republicans #Callais
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geneweingarten.substack.com/p/…

Is This The Worst Supreme Court Ever?

Historians and legal experts are pretty much in agreement that the worst U.S.

^{gene weingarten (The Gene Pool)}

"It has ushered in a nearly constant descent into our darker past. ...

No Supreme Court in history has been so blatantly morally compromised — this is the first ones whose actions were stinky enough to lead to Congress creating a code of conduct for them."

#SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #Republicans #Callais
/4

"In effect this is the first time that a Supreme Court — the ultimate authority on what constitutes proper, legal, ethical conduct — required a nanny to police their own selves. Primly, deferentially, the code was declared 'voluntary' and 'non-binding.'"

#SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #Republicans #Callais
/5

"Much of this court’s corruption involves judges accepting favors and gifts from wealthy benefactors with matters that did — or might — come before them. This is a court that, it would seem, can be bought."

#SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #Republicans #Callais
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"This court has been a shameful court ... I used to argue before the Supreme Court and I read the opinion. It's shit. I mean, it's just bullshit. The whole thing is bullshit. …It is all politics and it is all — this notion of neutral justice is now,
for everybody to see, absolute bullshit."

~ Robert Reich

#SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #Republicans #Callais
/7

robertreich.substack.com/p/is-…

Is This the Shittiest Supreme Court in History? | The Coffee Klatch for Saturday, May 2, 2026

With Heather Lofthouse and Yours Truly, Robert Reich (and special guest Ben McKenzie)

^{Robert Reich}

"Whatever we call it—Jim Crow 2.0, the John Roberts Jim Crow Era, or the John Crow Era—no person in America is more responsible for the return to the Jim Crow Era than John Roberts. The resurrection of the post-Civil War Jim Crow brand of racism is the crowning achievement of John Roberts’ life work" (continued in /9)

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #JimCrow #Republicans #Callais
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roberthubbell.substack.com/p/t…

The John Crow Era

May 2, 2026

^{Robert B. Hubbell (Today's Edition Newsletter)}

Noting "Sam Alito’s corruption-drenched decision gutting the remains of the Voting Rights Act," Josh Marshall says,

"The corrupt majority has now doubled down not simply on the non-reviewability of gerrymandering but gerrymandering as a critical and fundamental right of states."

#SupremeCourt #SamuelAlito #JohnRoberts #corruption #VotingRights #WhiteSupremacy #Republicans #Callais
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talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/t…

The Court’s Corruption Seeps Into Every Tissue of American Life

We’re talking a lot today about gerrymandering and Court reform. I want to note one among many ways the two issues intersect. Democrats are consistent on…

^{Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)}

"For all the effort that Supreme Court justices put into insisting they are not 'partisan hacks,' when the Court resolves awful democracy cases, elected Republicans have remarkably little trouble understanding what they are supposed to do, and how quickly they are supposed to act."

~ Jay Willis

#SupremeCourt #Callais #VotingRights #democracy #EconomicElites #corruption #Republicans
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ballsandstrikes.substack.com/p…

The Republican Justices Want to Help Republican Politicians Win Elections

The Supreme Court just issued a decision making it easier for lawmakers to racially gerrymander their states. Republicans are already racing to take advantage.

^{Jay Willis (Balls & Strikes)}

#GiftArticle

#SCOTUS kills #VotingRights

The Supreme Court’s decision to upend a key provision of the #VotingRightsAct [#VRA] has plunged the nation into a dizzying new era of partisan conflict, most likely ushering in a forever #redistricting war that could produce fewer competitive seats in #Congress & further #polarize #US politics.

#law #ElectionLaw #CivilRights #democracy #RepresentationMatters #authoritarianism #illiberalism #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt
nytimes.com/2026/04/30/us/poli…

“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.”

#VRA #VotingRights #democracy #civilrigjts #scotus #SherrilynIfill

sherrilyn.substack.com/p/scotu…

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 Act

^{Sherrilyn Ifill (Sherrilyn’s Newsletter)}

It begins…

#Louisiana governor prepares to suspend #House primaries after #SCOTUS ruling

Gov. Jeff Landry (R) told #Republican House candidates he plans to suspend the May 16 primary #elections so lawmakers can redraw the congressional map.

#law #ElectionLaw #VotingRights #Section2 #redistricting #RepresentationMatters #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #Trump #coup
washingtonpost.com/politics/20…

This is for all the folks in the back of the room who still think we can vote our way out of this.

I’m not saying we shouldn’t vote. We absolutely should. I’m saying voting alone has never and will not help us survive this fascist regime.

slate.com/news-and-politics/20…

#SCOTUS #VotingRights #VotingRightsAct #LouisianaVCallais #Resist #Antifascism

The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Just Issued the Worst Ruling in a Century

This evisceration of the Voting Rights Act requires us to take SCOTUS reform more seriously.

^{Richard L. Hasen (Slate)}

#SCOTUS tosses #Louisiana's congressional map with second majority Black district amid national #redistricting fight

The Supreme Court struck down Louisiana’s second majority Black congressional district in a decision that could open the door for #Republican-led states to eliminate #Black & #Latino electoral districts that tend to favor #Democrats & affect the balance of #power in #Congress.

#law #gerrymandering #VotingRights #RepresentationMatters
apnews.com/live/supreme-court-…