The Supreme Court Is Re-Creating America’s Worst Racial Injustices

The Supreme Court’s decision further eviscerating the Voting Rights Act will enable a systematic disenfranchisement of minority voters that echoes the darkest moments in America’s racial history.

With their sweeping ruling, the six Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices have empowered Republican-controlled states to erase legislative districts that now elect minority representatives — even as non-White people account for the vast majority, or even all, of those states’ growth, according to an analysis of Census data by the Equity Research Institute at the University of Southern California.