Voting Rights Act

When you think about the things the Roberts court has done: let’s let billionaires spend as much money as they want, let’s erase the Voting Rights Act, let’s overturn Roe with Dobbs, every one of those things—think about the way they’ve changed the country since 2008 and not a single vote was taken in Congress on any of it, not a single vote to do it.

One can make a compelling argument that the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act were the nation's birth certificate.

Chief Justice Roberts, this purported moderate institutionalist, struck down the key provision of the Voting Rights Act in Shelby County versus Holder by inserting a misleading ellipsis into a quotation he drew from one of his previous opinions.

This term, they are hearing another Voting Rights Act case that asks them to say it's actually unconstitutional racial discrimination for states to try to ensure that black voters are represented in districting.

On Wednesday, the Voting Rights Act suffered the second shot in a brutal new one-two punch, and some worry it could lead to a knockout blow at the Supreme Court.