The Supreme Court Started Rigging Elections Before Going After Roe

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The content of the Alito draft should not have come as a shock. It has been the goal of the Republican Party to overturn Roe v. Wade for decades by using the Heritage Foundation and Federalist Society to pack conservative judges on our highest courts.

In July of 2021, the Supreme Court delivered a severe blow to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 which was considered to be the crown­ing achieve­ment of the civil rights move­ment and the nation’s best defense against racially discrim­in­at­ory voting laws. The Court’s ruling in Brnovich v. Demo­cratic National Commit­tee now makes it substan­tially harder for voters to chal­lenge voter suppression laws, hack­ing away at federal courts’ powers to protect Amer­ic­ans’ access to the ballot box.

Another indication of where this Court was heading came earlier this year when the Conservative majority allowed the state of Alabama to continue to wage war on voting rights that primarily target minorities. the court decided to throw out new districts for the state legislature in Wisconsin that had been picked by the state supreme court.

The Court’s conservative majority seemed to go out of its way again to attack the Voting Rights Act, when they again were extremely stringent with the limits of the Voting Rights Act. By narrowing the interpretation of the VRA with regard to racially discriminatory voting practices, the Court found that redistricting in Wisconsin was not permissible, even when it was used to protect minority voters. This move ultimately made it more difficult for litigants to justify considering race when district lines are redrawn.

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