The Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais and the subsequent redistricting by state legislatures demonstrates the expediency of modern disenfranchisement.
In the pre-1960s South, which Supreme Court Republicans have just brought back from the dead, Black citizens have no voice in federal lawmaking.
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Medgar Evers and Martin Luther King Jr. and Viola Liuzzo did not die just for the conservative majority to commit this heartless act of political vandalism. In a 6-3 decision, the court rendered ineffective section 2 of the Voting Rights Act...
The department contacted at least three counties to request detailed records about individual voters. A representative told one election official “all 254 counties will be contacted.”
Doing something, continuing to root out inequality and injustice where we encounter it, is the greatest tribute we can pay to Martin Luther King Jr.
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