The Decision That Could End Voting Rights
A federal court’s opinion yesterday could render the Voting Rights Act meaningless, if the Supreme Court upholds it.
The right to vote free of racial discrimination was won by blood and sacrifice, those of both the soldiers who fought to preserve the Union and the enslaved and formerly enslaved, and inscribed in the Constitution as the Fifteenth Amendment, so that sacrifice would not be in vain. But that right is also very inconvenient for the modern Republican Party, which would like to be able to discriminate against Black voters without interference from the government.
Yesterday, a three-judge panel from the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals Section 2
