Striking down the last remnants of the Voting Rights Act is exactly why the Supreme Court held this case over from last year. Gutting Section 2, which requires that racial minorities have an equal opportunity to meaningfully participate in the electoral process, is going to take us backwards in time and allow racial gerrymandering to be a standard practice, silencing more voters.
Long before the MAGA movement, Chief Justice Roberts saw the removal of the VRA as one of his top goals for his time on the Court. President Trump followed this decision with a directive for conservative-led states to erase multiple majority-Black districts across the South. His supporters are climbing over one another to comply.
The consequences are simple to understand and grave for voter participation. The harder we make it to vote, the more politicians make voter participation feel worthless, the less people actually take part. Needless to say, the less people who participate, the less our democracy and our government looks like the people it's supposed to represent.
The answer is to beat them at the ballot box and elect candidates who support our fundamental right to vote. Will you chip in with $35 or whatever you can to help us fight back against their desperate ploy to hold power? >>
