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The Supreme Court just signed the death certificate of what remained of the Voting Rights Act. iPINIONS argues that the Roberts Court has turned democracy into a demolition derby, with Clarence Thomas serving as Pied Piper for a MAGA majority determined to recast protections for Black and Latino voters as racism against Whites. Read my… Read more.
Members of the Democratic Caucus insisted on linking passage of the bipartisan infrastructure bill not just with the Build Back Better bill, which focuses on welfare programs and climate change, but also with the Freedom to Vote Act and The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, both of which focus on protecting voting rights (for… Read more.
It’s a huge defeat for the civil rights community on the most important civil rights law ever passed. The Court has revoked and canceled part of Martin Luther King’s dream. (Reverend Al Sharpton, The Huffington Post, June 25, 2013) Given the way Black civil rights activists reacted, you’d think the decision the Supreme Court handed… Read more.
