Callais Verdict Reopens Wounds of the Voting Rights Era
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The TPM piece links the Supreme Court’s Callais v. Louisiana ruling to the 1960s civil rights era, telling stories of violence and loss that helped drive the Voting Rights Act to argue the decision accelerates the rollback of Black political power in the South through aggressive redistricting, a trend historians call a grave setback and a call to renewed voting activism.
- Their Loved Ones Died for the Voting Rights Act. The Supreme Court’s Ruling Is a New Injustice. Talking Points Memo
- ‘Louisiana v. Callais’ Belongs in Supreme Court’s Anti-canon New York Magazine
- Rethinking a Supreme Court principle used to undermine the Voting Rights Act SCOTUSblog
- Democracy Is a Racial Entitlement Now The Atlantic
- Opinion | The Law They Hate Was a High Point of Our History The New York Times
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