Supreme Court Judgments Have Slowly Erased Voting Rights

We need May Day every day to defeat the oppression the latest Supreme Court decision on Voting Rights Act codifies

Last week, the majority right-wing U.S. Supreme Court dealt the last death blow to the 1965 Voting Rights Act, a seminal piece of civil rights legislation that tried to right the centuries of wrong we have committed against fellow Black and nonwhite Americans. But, as we see regularly from the strike line to our state houses to the White House, when working people fight together in unbreakable solidarity, we win.

Supreme Court Judgments Have Slowly Erased Voting Rights

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How did Supreme Court erode voting rights protections?

What happened A Supreme Court shift is described as having “slowly erased” key federal protections for Black voters after Reconstruction era federal protections began to erode over time. The story frames the change as the result of how Southern states reshaped electoral systems—particularly by…