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The Supreme Court’s Conservatives Have One Consistent Rule: Black Votes Shouldn’t Count The Supreme Court's conservatives have spent years systematically dismantling the… https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/03/the-supreme-courts-conservatives-have-one-consistent-rule-black-votes-shouldnt-count/

techdirt.comThe Supreme Court’s Conservatives Have One Consistent Rule: Black Votes Shouldn’t CountThe Supreme Court's conservatives have spent years systematically dismantling the Voting Rights Act, but the last seven months have been something else — a rapid-fire series of emergency docket rulings, procedural maneuvers, and carefully worded opinions that, taken together, make it effectively impossible to challenge racial gerrymandering. Not difficult. Impossible. And Justice Alito, in particular, seems almost gleeful in how mask-off he is in enabling the suppression of Black votes.

3/6/26, 4:29 pm21 reposts36 likes

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Worth noting that this is just the beginning. Banning other votes is also on the docket...