The Supreme Court just gutted the Voting Rights Act.
As Justice Kagan writes in her dissent, the Court’s changes don’t just “update” the law – they eviscerate it.
This is a devastating blow to our democracy and undermines decades of progress.
The Supreme Court just gutted what remained of the Voting Rights Act.
Elections have consequences. Clinton’s loss in 2016 gave us this Court. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...
This is one of the most egregious decisions by the Supreme Court in history.
Democrats must respond by redistricting anywhere & everywhere. This is a fight for the core of our constitutional rights.
We have been here before. We know this fight. We shall overcome.
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This is a very very big deal, 6 months before America's midterm elections. It could cause serious electoral disruption and spark protracted legal battles after election day.
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Obama warned Americans how very important State Legislature races were in 2024... yet Dems lost many of them. 😵
Now the Supreme Court has turned Gerrymandering upside down and opened the gates for those red State Houses to redraw the lines. 😬
The white Nazi SCOTUS has gutted a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act, giving MAGA Repub their way to racial gerrymandering.This is why i fight the DSA left, MY DEMOCRACY 1st
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“It sends a dangerous signal that the progress we have made can be undone under the guise of legal theory,” said Rep. Troy Carter, who represents the district SCOTUS struck down. “The Voting Rights Act is not a relic. It is a living promise, a commitment that our democracy belongs to everyone.”
The Supremely Corrupt Roberts Court is still fighting the Civil War, and for the time-being, the Slave States have won. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...
Remember when all of the (white) folks denied the existence of structural racism in the wake of the Summer 2020 protests?
Jim Crow never really left
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Supreme Court Deals Further Blow to Voting Rights Act
The court’s conservative majority said they had upheld the landmark law, but the liberals accused them of gutting it.
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The NYT: The Mississippi legislature will be among the first to act under the Supreme Court’s ruling Wednesday that undermined racially drawn political maps, as lawmakers in the state capitol move to redraw elected judicial districts under the high court’s new rules.
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To be clear: gerrymandering is ok when the GOP does it because it's political. it's illegal when the Dems do it because it's race-based.
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Except that the Constitution's Amendment 15, section 2, states "The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation." - which means Congress can overturn what SCOTUS just did, if we make sure they will. #CallYourReps #Vote #StopThem
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Supreme Court Deals Further Blow to Voting Rights Act, often considered the crown jewel of the civil rights-era laws.
The decision could allow Republican state legislatures to eliminate around a dozen House seats that are held by Democrats across the South!
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The Tin-Pot Dictator #DonaldTrump 8647
These means we must turn out in even more this and every election from now on. We should have learned what if we all don't can happen.
#Resist 24/7/365 #NoKings #Indivisible #BlueCrew
And Welcome To White Man's America Folks. Robert's Court Once Again Taking From The Poor & Giving To The (White) Rich. Unbeliveable
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Não se pode esperar nada da Suprema Corte dos EUA que, mais uma vez, golpeou a Lei de Direitos de Votos, derrubando o mapa de votação da Louisiana, o que, na sua essência, serve para desmantelar a histórica lei de direitos civis. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...
I'm old enough to remember when the voting rights act was in effect in Georgia. It was, what, 15 or 20 years ago? I wasn't mad at it.
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Supreme Court Further Weakens Voting Rights Act
The court’s conservative majority said they had upheld the landmark law, as liberal justices accused them of gutting it. In striking down a Louisiana voting map as a racial gerrymander, the court opened the door for www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...
It's time to take back the House and Senate and vote in new Supreme Court justices. The six right-wing justices, guilty of grift and sexual assault, need to be overruled.
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The vote is the most revolutionary, non-violent way to effect change in society. If it wasn't so valuable, conservatives wouldn't work so hard to keep you from voting.
Register yourself and others. Learn your ballot. Take others to the polls.
VOTE!
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Martin Luther King III, the son of the slain civil rights leader, called the ruling “a moral indictment that reflects a continued retreat from the promise of equal justice.”
Unbelievable. The court rules this way while reversing a lower court objection to Texas redistricting on the very same ground.
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The White Nationalist Court just undid the Civil Rights Movement, assuring that destroying the power of "minorities" is just fine. The democratic revolution of the 1960s is now on life support.
Democracy in the US is impossible without radical Supreme Court reform.
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The justices ruled that a Louisiana voting map was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander.
The court’s conservative majority said it upheld the landmark law, but the liberals accused them of gutting it. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...
Here's the unlocked coverage of today's #SCOTUS ruling further gutting the #VotingRightsAct, which, according to multiple sources, may seriously imperil #Democrats ability to take back the #House in November as it's likely to set off a rash of redistricting efforts.
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I’m not a VRA-head, where are the conservative justices getting this idea that provisions they don’t like “sunset”? Is there something in the text of the statute?
For diversity in college admissions, I know they’re getting it from some SCOTUS decision dicta.
Live Updates: Supreme Court Rules on Voting Rights Act Case
The case deals with whether states can consider race when drafting electoral maps, a challenge to a key provision of a landmark civil rights law.
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Donald Trump's destruction of democracy continues. The career criminal has caused more damage to this nation during my lifetime than any enemy, foreign or domestic, and I will surely not live long enough to see us recover from his endless acts of sabotage. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...
“The decision will improve Republicans’ fortunes ahead of the #midterm #elections. How big of an advantage depends on a variety of factors.” www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04... #SCOTUS
Thanks again to Ralph Nader, for screwing America and putting Roberts and Alito on SCOTUS.
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Today’s Supreme Court decision weakens one of the most important civil rights laws in our history.
The right to vote – free from discrimination – is fundamental to the democracy we believe in. The fight for the soul of this country continues, and J Street will be part of it. 1/2
“The ruling is illogical when racially polarized voting in the South is real; when the racial wealth gap, the educational achievement gap and health outcome gaps are real, when discrimination claims in employment are still rampant,”
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With out of control prices and an unnecessary war raging overseas that has cost $25 billion taxpayer dollars, Republicans know they can't win fair and square - so they're rigging the game.
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IN. SUM.:
“The Supreme Court betrayed Black voters, they betrayed America, & they betrayed our democracy. This ruling is a major setback for our nation & threatens to erode the hard-won victories we’ve fought, bled & died for”
THIS is wht maj of white voters who voted, voted FOR😶
My Morning Read:
“The issue is not whether I serve another day in Congress,” said Representative Cleo Fields, whose district is at the center of today’s case. “The real issue is, will a person like me have the opportunity to serve in Congress.” #VRA
Lord, have mercy. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...
Of course they did.
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For all you non-voters/“both sides are the same” types, if you thought your vote didn’t count before, it damn sure doesn’t now
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Live Updates: Supreme Court Deals Further Blow to Voting Rights Act
“The court’s conservative majority said they had upheld the landmark law, but the liberals accused them of gutting it. In striking down a Louisiana voting map as a racial gerrymander…”
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#SCOTUS
Kagan: the majority’s opinion means that a state can “without legal consequence, systematically dilute minority citizens’ voting power.” the majority characterizes its opinion as an update when in fact “those ‘updates’ eviscerate” voting rights protections
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If you're still wondering whether the Trump-worshipping Supreme Court is racist, you're simply not looking hard enough...
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In case it wasn't clear enough that the current #SupremeCourt is largely controlled by the #racists: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04/29/us/supreme-court-voting-rights?unlocked_article_code=1.elA.jHfn.mQGLwsAyu-6C&smid=nytcore-android-share
#uspol
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So you want to stop black people voting? The Supreme Court says that's fine with them! This will be ALL over the next presidential election...
There You Go!
Supreme Court rules against Voter's Rights (AGAIN!):
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Step-by-step. "Step-by-Step We Need to Get Ahead of This - PREPARE!"
Live Updates: Supreme Court Deals Further Blow to Voting Rights Act
Where are American Citizens? This is an opportunity to demand (petition) to the Supreme Court Popular Vote for their Country!!!
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Dreadful decision.
In the USA, to prove discrimination you must prove *intent* to discriminate. Nearly impossible
In Canada, you don’t need to prove intent, just the effect of discrimination.
A huge difference between our countries!
🇨🇦 > 🇺🇸
🇺🇸 = 💩
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04... The Sup Ct decides the policies promoted by the voting right act and the 14 A constitute "reverse discrimination." This completes the Federalist Society attack begun decades ago and overrules democratically adopted principles upheld by the Ct repeatedly in the past.
Gifted
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Supreme Court Updates: Justices Further Weaken Voting Rights Act, Igniting Political Scramble
The court’s conservative majority said it had upheld the landmark law, as liberal justices...
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“…we’ll be back to where we were at the time that slavery was declared illegal in this country. This country doesn’t seem to want to advance beyond that time.”
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This radical right activist supreme court is setting civil rights back to the bad old days, ensuring white men rule supreme, women and minorities are second class citizens, and the environment is gutted. They are water carriers for this extreme Republican party.
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Shame on the bigoted GOP Supreme Court justices who just gutted the crucial Voting Rights Act, enabling Jim Crow style racially-based voting blocks to eliminate fair minority representation in our nation!
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Welcome to Jim Crow 2.0. Brought to you from an alternative universe where the Reconstruction amendments were actually designed to *permit* white legislators to discriminate against black voters.
The SCOTUS needs to be ignored.
Trump doesn't follow their orders so why should anyone else?
Stare decisis means nothing to the right wing ideologues on the court.
We'll never recover from this.
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