The Supreme Court agrees to hear a case to weaken the Voting Rights Act. @elienyc.bsky.social explains: "The conservative argument is that you can use race if it's helping white folks, but you can't use race if it's stopping white folks from taking advantage & disenfranchising black people." #VELSHI
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Sounding the Alarm: Supreme Court hears case to gut the Voting Rights Act
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case that could gut key protections in the Voting Rights Act. Elie Mystal, columnist at The Nation, argues the civil rights-era legislation is one of the most important pieces of American law: "Before the 1965 Voting Rights Act, this was an apartheid nation where black people were not allowed political power and representation in the country.”
