Supreme Court guts the Voting Rights Act in “Jim Crow 2.0” ruling

Supreme Court repairs the Voting Rights Act

The text of the Voting Rights Act specifically says minority populations have no collective right to representation equal to their share of the population. After 40 years of bad precedent, the Supreme Court finally returned to the original meaning of that text on Wednesday, bringing an end to an era of legalized racial gerrymandering. Before […]