A Dark Day for Democracy: Supreme Court Guts Voting Rights Act, Greenlights Racial Gerrymandering

A Dark Day for Democracy: Supreme Court Guts Voting Rights Act, Greenlights Racial Gerrymandering

A Dark Day for Democracy: Supreme Court Guts Voting Rights Act, Greenlights Racial Gerrymandering

Sierra Club Statement on Supreme Court Ruling to Gut the Voting Rights Act - CleanTechnica

Washington, DC — Today, the nation’s largest and most influential environmental advocacy organization weighed in on the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision in Louisiana v. Callais that will further erode the landmark Voting Rights Act and dilute the voting power of minorities. In response, Sierra Club Executive Director Loren Blackford released the following ... [continued] The post Sierra Club Statement on Supreme Court Ruling to Gut the Voting Rights…

The Supreme Court Has Found Its True Enemy: Multiracial Democracy

The court ruled 6–3 on ideological lines to all but end the protections of the modern Voting Rights Act.

Supreme Court gutted landmark law that protected minority voting rights for 6 decades

By GARY FIELDS and KIM CHANDLER, Associated Press

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Court guts Voting Rights Act provision

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday gutted a key provision of the Voting Rights Act — making it harder for minorities to challenge electoral maps as racially discriminatory under the landmark civil rights law — in a victory…