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Hi,
In a country where the right-wing Supreme Court has given the president “absolute immunity” for “official acts,” it is critically important that every voter has the right to cast their ballot in elections.
Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and John Roberts were all on the right-wing side of the 2013 SCOTUS ruling that gutted the Voting Rights Act. Democracy is under attack from the right-wing courts, and has been for over a decade (at least) — Congress must act immediately to restore voting rights and stop voter suppression.
The Supreme Court fundamentally undid one of the most important pieces of civil rights legislation in American history with its 2013 decision. Since then, over 100 state voter suppression laws have been passed, infringing on the voting rights of millions of Americans.
This year, Thomas, Alito, and the other conservative SCOTUS Justices also rubber-stamped the South Carolina GOP’s new heavily skewed Congressional maps. The NAACP challenged the maps for racist gerrymandering, but the right-wing court rejected the challenge.1 That could open the floodgates for more Republican-led partisan, racist gerrymandering.
We’ve seen what state-level Republican lawmakers, the House GOP, and right-wing SCOTUS justices are willing to do to upend the principles of democracy and stop people from voting. Congress must act immediately and pass new, landmark voting rights legislation.
Add your name: Tell Congress to stop voter suppression with new landmark voting rights legislation!
Thanks for taking action,
Joey and the team at Demand Progress
Sources:
- Salon, “Expert says SCOTUS ruling subjects Black voters to 'abuse.' Clarence Thomas wants to go even further,” May 25, 2024.
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