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Trump Court Pick Once Called For Bringing Back Literacy Tests In Elections

  • In 2025, President Donald Trump nominated Josh Divine to serve as a federal judge with lifetime tenure on both the Eastern and Western District Courts of Missouri.
  • Divine previously wrote a 2010 college opinion piece advocating state-administered literacy tests as a voting requirement that should apply to all Americans.
  • Literacy tests, historically used to disenfranchise Black voters and banned by the Voting Rights Act of 1965, were a tool for racial discrimination and trick questions.
  • Divine stated, "People who aren’t informed about issues or platforms have no business voting," and claimed literacy tests themselves are not bad, proposing state administration.
  • Divine's nomination raises concerns due to his youth, limited legal experience, and controversial past writings, which critics see as undermining democratic voting rights and enabling voter suppression.
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