How the Supreme Court Demolished the Voting Rights Act

For decades, the Supreme Court has shifted its view on racial discrimination from a civil-rights-era stance that the government must remedy and prevent it to a perspective where seeing race in decision-making is itself considered discriminatory. In Louisiana v. Callais, the Court’s decision in Wednesday’s ruling dismantled the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a landmark law designed to ensure racially equal electoral opportunities.

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