Behind Supreme Court Voting Rights Ruling, a Clash Over the Reality of Racism

The Supreme Court ruling said there must be proof that a racial group was “intentionally” disadvantaged. The dissent called it “well-nigh impossible.”

By Richard Fausset

He spent 60 years building Black political power. He sees a wipeout coming.

Press Robinson, who years ago mounted a legal fight to become the first Black person elected to a Louisiana school board, was on the losing side of the Supreme Court case weakening the Voting Rights Act.

By Justin Jouvenal

The supreme court trusts America not to be racist. I don’t | Jamil Smith

The Callais decision is predicated on the idea that American leaders will act justly on their own. That premise has already been proven hollow Six supreme court justices handed down a ruling built, ostensibly, on the belief that the US has changed so much as to render the protections of the Voting Rights Act unnecessary. No one should be that gullible. In 1901, the same year my great-grandfather was born, George H White rose to address the 56th United States Congress for the last time. He was...

By Jamil Smith

Civil rights groups in the South respond to Supreme Court's blow to voting rights

We gauge reaction in the Deep South to the Supreme Court ruling that could upend Black representation in Congress.

By Debbie Elliott

Warnock: Supreme Court dealt 'devastating blow' to democracy with Voting Rights Act ruling

Contempt Of Court: Hakeem Jeffries Denounces the Supreme Court As "Illegitimate"

Contempt Of Court: Hakeem Jeffries Denounces the Supreme Court As "Illegitimate" Authored by Jonathan Turley, The Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais took 36 pages to explain why Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act is about combating intentional racial discrimination, not allowing racial gerrymandering. However, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries wrapped it up in one word: “illegitimate.” Jeffries was not speaking of the case, but the Court. The man who would b...

By Tyler Durden

Defection: Peter Obi was left with no choice but to defect – DG Heritage Centre

A foundation leader of the Obidient Movement and Director-General of the Heritage Centre, Dr. Katch Onanuju, has said the 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, had no option but to pursue his political future elsewhere following developments within the African Democratic Congress (ADC). The post Defection: Peter Obi was left with no choice but to defect – DG Heritage Centre appeared first on Vanguard News.

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